Intruders

I hope we're able to stop abusing this beautiful Earth on which we reside
Before she really does decide it's time for us to go
Before she, like a hibernating turtle stretches out her neck
And blinks sleepily as she looks in horror at the growth upon her back
At the smog and desolation of her extraordinary habitats
Her wardrobe of forests and gleaming oceans infested with us-rats
As we spread the plague in the name of “science”, “the future”, and “greed”
When really less is more and peace not war is what we need
Poor Earth will roar and shift her feet in fury
And the universe will be the witness to the story
As the oceans crash and wash away the scourge
Gaia scrubs fervently in hopes to purge
Drown the rats and all their fleas!
Ignore the desperate fervent pleas!
Human folly and lives that were too short anyway
Clouds like shrouds roll in and lightning gets to play
His forked tongue strikes as brother thunder claps in happiness
The gentle rain showers away this ugly mortal fungus
The smog and smoke are drowned in ash as Earth rumbles
And raging, rolls so that everything cracks and tumbles
Finally beneath all of the impurity
A clean and shiny shell is what she sees
Smiling, sated she starts to sleep again
As specks of stardust gather and fall like rain
As new life forms upon the fresh waxed shield
And spreads so fast as nature to it yields
Only another thousand years or so
Will these new forms have before she’ll know
Before Earth smells the smoke and feels the fire
And then makes known again her frenzied ire
For now we shall tread stealthily
As Earth progresses even more unhealthily
We’ll try and stamp out some fires so the flames are dulled
And Earth will slumber in this false stupor, lulled
Yet we cannot hide from this inevitable fate
The Earth has begun quivering-make haste!