IN THE END

In the end
We understood
In the end
We had not been good

We mourned the animals
Now long gone
Missed the trees
The sweet birdsong 

​​​And in the end
We understood
We understood
We had not been good

Had ignored all warnings
We had not paid heed
Arrogant humans
Such abbhorrent greed

So we watched 
The broiling waters rise
Raised despairing heads
To indifferent skies

But in the end
It did no good
In the end
We had not been good

​​​For reality awakened us
To all hope lost
We had it all
But our world it cost

As awareness dawned
Bid us on our knees
A universe indifferent 
To our desperate plees

So at the end
We understood
Yes, we understood
We had not been good
Marion Price
(2018)