Global warming

The sun, its rays, now scorch my gaze,
The stratosphere’s depleting.
The hail, it falls like acid balls
And kills the air we’re breathing.
The winters surrender to heat,
The springs cut short before we meet,
Our fields are barren of its wheat
Because our earth is dying.

The breaking dawn, it brings upon
Each day a silent warning.
Instead of fog, we see the smog
In which the city’s bathing.
The dry and burning winds, they blow
And filled with dross, the rivers flow,
And as our populations grow
The earth, our home, is dying.

As though a dream, the oceans seem
To lose the war that’s raging,
It is with grief, each coral reef, 
I hear, is disappearing.
With ocean levels on the rise,
The wells and ponds, they breed more flies,
We fail to heed to natures cries
And our earth is dying.

The caps of snow, they melt and flow,
The permafrost is thinning,
The oceans wide, they hide inside,
The life that we are killing.
The lakes, they dry up at the shore
And leave our gullets parched and sore,
The trees have lost the fruit they bore
Because the earth is dying.

The barren lands and desert sands
Unchecked, are fast expanding.
Our cars and vans and aerosol cans
Invite this global warming.
The birds, extinct, can’t take to flight
In skies of ultraviolet light,
Against the dust and smoke we fight 
Because the earth is dying.

But for our earth, and all she’s worth,
And all she has been giving,
I pray, someday, we’ll find a way
That won’t leave us lamenting.
If only we could do our best
To put this endless war to rest
And put our talents to the test
To save our earth from dying