The Ocean

TheOcean
Are we indifferent to the fate of the sea?
By what we do and what we allow to be.
With sewage sludge PCB and DDT
Nuclear waste and plastic debris.
The consequence of trashing the sea
Are horrendous and fatal to you and me.
With factory farming by acoustic device
Shoals of fish are collected in a trice;
Along with turtles and dolphins as sacrifice.
The rewards and profits of avarice.
We over fish and ocean dump.
No more will we watch the dolphin jump.
And the humpback whale’s tail thump
After the massive tankers with excess sump,
Poisons these creatures with this foul clump.
Still we hunt and fish to overkill.
We trash the beaches uncaring until,
The ocean becomes a sewer fill;
And the creatures in the seas we will kill.
Who cleans it up, who pays the bill.
Who cares that is the bitter pill.
<©> Valerie Cook 1998

Our Trouble World

TheFuture

The future is uncertain with all that has passed.
Our environment is changing the die is cast.
Our lives are in flux.
Bombing our cities, terror tactics sucks.
Life continues in spite of what transpires,
With some politicians who are fools and liars.
Traffic is in gridlock most of the day,
Our beaches are toxic or so they say.
Rivers and streams susceptible and laced
With poison from industrial waste.
Industry adds to our worry and woe
Using chemicals that damage, we reap what they sow.
Our children have asthma and allergy traits,
Though old folk live longer like creaking gates.
Preservatives in food increases shelf time,
But the taste is gone and the packaging a crime.
The pollution from waste products are dragging us down
Plastic and chemicals are drowning our town.
The land fills are an eyesore and the smell is so bad.
Polluting our planet makes me so mad.
We have grey bins and green bins and boxes for tins
Recycling our rubbish has us all on pins.
Our air is so offensive for many weeks.
If left for two long it festers and reeks,
World wide it’s a problem and much need to be done
Before we kill everyone under the sun.
Cut down on travel especially the plane.
Sharing a car journey is very sane.
Recycle as much as you possibly can,
Be aware of the dangers in a spray can.
We have earthquakes, floods and disasters world wide,
Communities shattered and millions have died.
The health of the world is placed in our hands.
The message should go out to other lands.
The world today has much to consider,
Do we sell ourselves to the highest bidder
Look after our planet it’s the only one we`ve got.
Global warming will change our planet a lot.

<©>Valerie Cook August 2005