D E G E N E S I S
The sea so beautiful. The sun so pure The valley so confident. The bay so secure All the buildings like the flowers that face to the sun If there is a God, Here his work is done And we with our wisdom adornments sublime Blots on the landscape, living our time Believe we possess all this world and its beauty The deeds and the statutes over-riding our duty
To respect every morsel and moment we savour Not sully it all with the kind of behaviour That abuses our advantage as the dominant species Laying down the law like cats’ litter feces And so the degenesis, Rapid decline Time to accept it and time to resign Ourselves to a simpler earth’s song Where sharing’s alright, Greed is all wrong
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