Dear Mother Nature

Dear Mother Nature
My hat goes off to you 
What you did was so kind
The things you didn’t have to do 
You grew, grew and grew
Then grew a little more 
Blessed us with land and water 
Made sure that this was pure 
Gave us fruit and vegetables
From the ground, from the trees 
And how lucky we are to have hands that are made perfectly to harvest all of these 
It’s funny how it’s come to plan 
This creation of yours 
It’s such a shame that humankind are rotten to the core 
You must feel so deflated, all the blames on you 
When we’re the ones doing the things you advised us not to do 
You didn’t make factories, money or greed 
We decided to make these things, you planted the seed 
You gave us feet to feel the sand between our toes 
Lavender smells beautiful, so you gave us a nose 
I’m grateful we have eyes so we can see the northern lights 
The sunset is phenomenal, you granted us sight 
We couldn’t hear the birds sing if we didn’t have ears 
You gave us emotions and let us laugh ourselves to tears 
We’ve discovered world foods, we can feel the taste on our tongues 
Gave us clean air to breathe, like a song to our lungs 
We made the cars, the pollution and oils 
We made the machines that exhaust our soils 
We built the tower blocks and created segregation 
We separated the rich from the poor and divided every nation 
We decided that what you’ve got is more important than who you are 
You didn’t know this was gonna happen whilst you were busy making stars 
We will tax those too, the day will surely come 
We will tax the moon, the sky and sun 
You gave us the rain to nurture our earth 
We destroyed the planet to which you gave birth 
80% of land is used for cattle and crops 
Yet the processed, packaged take over our shops 
Nature always takes over, the question is when 
Mother Nature is ready to start over again 
From log cabin to White House says William Roscoe Thayer 
Humanitarian, number one slayer 
We started to govern the people, dampen the joy 
No longer do we play outside, an iPhone is a toy 
Technology has become a pacifier, to every girl and boy 
The children aren’t building tree houses, mixing up mud pies 
They sit in front of BBC news, would you like some salt with these lies
We know what to do and where to go from here 
But we talk about it in the pub, binge depression fuelling beer 
We should be out there with you, putting these things right 
Mother Nature, we are just too scared to put up this needed fight