Let's Cling To Recycling! Poem by Denis Martindale

So many species fading fast, we won't see these again,
Endangered species may not last, just lastly seen by men.
Recycling is the better path, in oh so many ways,
Else God will read Man's epitaph, without one hint of praise.
When businesses are going great, with profits everywhere,
They leave this sad world in a state when acting without care.
With rubbish landfill sites galore, with oceans full of waste,
With poisons that we all deplore, some traced, yet not erased.
Man plays the savage now and then, as he cuts forests down,
He first sees profits, counts to ten, then really goes to town,
Yet thankfully, some people seek to plant trees when they can,
If not for these, the future's bleak, as there's no other plan.

We can't all leave this world behind, escaping what we've done,
That's not the future for Mankind that then saves everyone,
To wander near and wander far, across the void of space,
Perhaps to find some twinkling star, to grant us extra grace.
Nor does it resurrect the dead, the creatures we've destroyed,
No wonder, when we look ahead, we know that God's annoyed.
Yet if we change, like Scrooge once chose, at least we'd make a start,
But that depends on us, God knows, we need a change of heart.
If not for stewards acting now, we've no more heroes left,
This world will go to Hell somehow, to leave Mankind bereft.
Recycling changes everything when common sense occurs,
And to its wisdom, we should cling, or else Mankind gets worse.

Let's fight for all our future dreams, not nightmares borne of greed.
Recycling helps reduce extremes, and truly meets the need,
Then more recycling, even more, before we're just too late,
Else this old world will die for sure because of Mankind's fate.


Denis Martindale. September 2020.