Degenesis

DEGENESIS

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

United we stand, Or divided we fall. Do we all pull together. Or cower in the stall When it is all too late saying: ‘I told you so’ As we recount our inaction blow by blow

How words are cheap, And life’s even cheaper The world overheated, And we heard the beeper! Listened and wondered just what we could do Facing pulpits spinning lies and shunning the truth

I’ve never believed in ‘God bless us all’ Never believed in God much at all Let evil prevail and all sins wash away? I’m sorry my friends but that God’s had his day

And so much the better, No more speak His name No more hanging judges, Or heads hung in shame For WE are the saviour, Nothing more nothing less And our World is demanding, A change of address