It’s amazing how fast we all got used to it :
The droughts, the fires, the floods
It’s amazing how long we just ignored it
Year after year
As hurricanes increased in number
We saw more disasters, more hunger

More reasons to fear
Less resources to share
Wars that never ended
Reasons that never existed
Trouble right out in our streets
But we couldn’t —we wouldn’t —see it
We didn’t do anything
Until it was too late
Until our planet
Suffered an unthinkable fate
It wasn’t until things got irreparably worse
That we finally saw our home, as it was:
Dangling in the universe
A speck of dust
A miracle
A twist of fate
A fragile rock in a bubble of air
Near a perfectly suitable star
And on that pebble, life arose
So many lives
So much living
Over eons of time
Centuries and millennia
But now, the living is over
And we are gathered here to remember
Dearly beloved I invite you to recall
The earth where my children once played
They rolled in the grass
They sprawled in the shade
Of those beautiful creatures upon it which swayed
We called them trees
Their leaves fluttered in the breeze
If only we hadn’t denied The Evidence
It was there the whole time
If only we paid more attention
When crooked people lied
I wish we had done something
To keep it alive
Back when our earth
Still had a chance to survive.
Farewell sweet earth, we miss you like hell
Those seeds in your gardens you tended to so well
Seeds that flourished in your skies, soils and seas
Are now scattered,
Flung across the galaxies
Where perhaps one day they will happen to land
On another perfectly spinning chunk of sand
Perhaps life will get a second chance
A chance begin again
The odds of our earth existing at all
Were so incredibly, incredibly small
But it happened once
That we know of so far
by Sarah Caton