Is This Earth's Destiny?
Devastated planet that was once so bright and blue
spinning on its axis, circling the sun,
now, shrouded in a mushroom's cloak, goes dying into space unknown
to join the man-made junk that was to shield our planet home.
Now, man no longer fights with man - a battle deadly to the end -
demoralised, too weak to care, Mankind can only stand and stare
at bodies twisted, burned; at Nature out of all control
with no escape from the sheol.
Too late to stop and count the cost, too late to realise what was lost;
to cries of terror, screams of pain, the leaders called a truce,
but, not before a poisonous flame engulfed the planet Earth.
Horrific to the end the furnace raged and then was gone,
and warring ceased, but,
NO-ONE WON!
Copyright Lily Driver 1991