A World as it Once Used to Be

Remember the world as it once used to be

With nature run wild, living happy and free

No tampering of humans with what lives and grows

None of the hideous, unnatural, industrial foes

Before cars, before roads, before lumber and power

Before oil, before plastic, before life grew so sour

Nary a jackhammer heard anywhere

Zero of industry’s hardships to bear

The trees grew so high, hardly could one see top

Flowers grew thick in bright colorful mops

The air was so sweet and the sweetness so fresh

The bushes so rampant, they formed solid mesh

When it came to food, why, nature provided the feast!

Freshly picked berries and natural grown meat!

We ate all the things we adapted to eat

Not horrible, mutated, something-like-wheat

Never amid were clouds of poisonous smog

Closest we came was clean, natural fog

The oceans were pure and a habitable place

With chemicals and poisons they never were laced

The streams clear and sweet, bubbling fresh and cool

If hot, one could swim in a crystal clear pool

The grass soft and green, reaching upwards towards light

The wild flowers bursting with color and life

One could hike for days throughout damp, mossy wood

The same trees that now die for the consumer’s goods

We chop down our forests and leave animals to die

Why is this needed, I ask of you. Why?

Keep the vision of the past in your heart and your mind

For if we unite, we just may someday find

That we have better ways than our current abuse

That we don’t need to lead Mother Nature up to the noose

Perhaps industrialism never shall fade

But surely, there must be a much better way

To find what we need and to get what we want

Than to reduce our poor Earth to being shambles and gaunt

So keep the image in mind, and keep the thought in heart

Let us all rise up, for a brand new fresh start!

Let us regain our world as it was meant to be!

Let us find once again joys of being happy and free!