Earth Day

A day of empty platitudes  
reciting basic truths  
to discard tomorrow  
as we always seem to do  
 
A sea of plastic refuse    
kissing a beach of broken glass  
cities sinking, drowning  
beneath our endless heaps of trash  
   
what can I do  
as a fervent consumer  
buying my comfort    
the Earth cries while we consume her  
   
Now praying for something    
that one day will surely come  
a reflection of our negligence    
so we might see what we have done  
   
A sudden reversal  
split mankind asunder  
as Earth roars back and destroys us  
human nature pulls us under  
   
   
*A work in progress. This will likely be edited several more times*