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