Coup de grâce

Exploitation of resources and pollution of  Planet Earth due to Man's greed for development and comforts has no meaning since it would be the beginning of the end of them both. The time has come when a whip HAS to be cracked and people HAVE to listen. When I say kind whip, I mean self-imposed limitations that may seem harsh to impose since it involves forfeiting certain comforts we are used to.

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Drilling, scooping and damming

Her plaintive tears flow unheard

We suck her milk of goodness

Her hidden secret kindness

Till she bleeds from every pore

Father greed wields the whip

Rules the blood money whirlpools

And she lashes out in fury

Angry eyes spell out caution

Little lessons unheeded

Her acid wrath smarting

The selfish wastrels who sprue

The countless gassy venom.

Her entrails boil and spill

To spread death and disaster.

Where are we going from here?

Down a precipice we stare

A slide into nothingness.

Silly slaughter has to stop!

Its time to crack the kind whip!

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