We didn't go abroad this year, we had our summer holiday
Here in the UK where it had rained all summer long.
We scuba dived in the sea but it was dead, devoid of all
Life; we walked the coastal path to where the bungalow
Fell in the sea last year, near to the wreck of the oil tanker
That ran aground in a winter storm.
On the only dry day we had we went for a picnic sitting
In a meadow beneath an oak tree but there were no wild
Flowers, and no bees either; even the Holly Blue's didn't show.
Only the soft noise of fracking in the next field. Cows that once
Graced that field now stand farting and re eating their lives away
In a shed that's part of a factory farm.
On our last day we sat in the cafe eating cod and
Chips, cod caught in the Irish sea loaded with
Caesium 137 and strontium 90 that had been seeping
Out of Sellafield nuclear power station over the years.
We could have had the Pacific tuna irradiated from the
Fukushima fall-out but preferred the cod.
Have we not messed it up already For me and you and Freddy? (Freddy represents all the rest of us, including bees and all living creatures) I find this poem wonderful and it really shakes you up.. It is a very good example of how we are killing all life and the planet itself. Should be read by all who love and respect life and our battered mother Earth. Thank you David. You can say Mission Accomplished!
Yes, the world is changing, and not for the better. Neither are the people. TFS
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Excuse the bad wording: should have said, what have our choices come to? !