Humanity Owes Ecology An Apology Poem by EZEKIEL HARUNA DANBAKI

I can see it clearly now
Wildlife is gone
The whale in oily waters
Wave and yell for rescue
A flock of birds clad in tattered regalia
Fly in silence
Vainly hoping to build a village
Where man's eyes has never set foot
The jungle is lone and desolate
And the forest crowd spent
Fun lovers defile wild beasts in zoos
A pipit laments a faint note
There is sorrow in her song - the dirge of a caged bird
with no kindred to belong
The sky spread wide her arms
In guise embrace of gases combusting from below
Now she is scored with noxious fumes
Have many sores in her heart
The sun rises with a frown
Suffers the earth a loathsome stare
With its morning soothing warm
That soon turns a scorching hate
The sages said 'the globe is warming'

We inflict nature with lesions
And clothe ourselves in fashions
We burn all the gases
Fell the trees and flame the grasses
We pump fuels to race our cars
And paint nature in lethal scars
We are living too fast
We can never outwit our past
Already it is here
To ensure we are not there