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