are they crazy? are they mad?

Are they crazy?
Are they mad?
by an angry member of shotley,
 through the eyes of A father,
And loving dad.
As this is one of the most beautiful parts of the countryside,
These isles have ever had!
According to stats,
We’re the 3rd most polluted in all these lands,
Even more than the big northern industrial,
Smog ridden towns.
Those are the facts!
It makes me laugh though as it’s none of that,
They’re arguing noise and light pollution,
That made them take this act.
Why don’t they ask the local people,
Really?
Does it have that much of an impact?
I like the light odd clanging of the cranes and the crates,
if I can’t sleep at night.
Just knowing there are people out there working ,
Makes me feel kind of safe,
Helps get me back to sleep,
Wrapped up tight.
Then as the bell rolls 12 and out go our street light,
We have this beautiful orange,
Not glow,
But a hue of light in the night. 
Making me feel that comfort again,
Like a childs' bedtime light.
You hear more from the skies.
The lightening,
the wind,
the pitter patter of the rain,
are they not noise pollution too,
as it drives some people insane.
That drip,
Drop,
Drip upon the windows pane.
Well up north again,
As looking at the facts they get a lot more rain. 
Is that taken into equation as noise pollution,
That sound of water running down the streets and cascading the drains?
Ask the locals,
Then think again.
We are surrounded by fields and all year round seasonal fruits.
Potatoes and grain,
Onions and parsley,
Cows full of milk,
And meat for the plate.
So I challenge you again to call this a polluted place,
Come see its beauty,
Its roaming hill topped fields,
Cow fields separated by a ditch to keep them off the beach,
Chewing on the plentiful green grass,
Up and down the hills,
 of to them,
green everlast.
See it’s not just the humans that love this place,
All of nature and its animals too,
Saying we  are polluted,
They should be disgraced.
Base it on the things that matter. 
How can noise and light,
Be our villages plight?
It’s not fair.
It’s just not right!
What about the countless cities and towns,
Lights blazing deeper in the suburbs. 
All those fumes from restaurants and takeaways,
Big buildings burning and blowing all their waste away?
So how are we the 3rd most polluted with no sirens,
No police n helicopter,
Around here you’ll see. 
Not even in the day,
As here is as beautiful as can be.
Here is where I can let my kids laugh and play out till dark,
No worries of them getting mugged or worse by someone down at the park.
Is that kind of pollution added when comparing light to the dark?
Or inner city noise,
 to a few slight knocks across the waters path?
As I’m sure,
Like me,
The rest of shotley would say,
you’re having a laugh.
We are proud of our village,
what it provides and it’s incredible past!