Blue Planet

 Blue Planet

In thick strokes, raging torrents, mighty falls

on a wash of rolling mists, morning dew,

vast oceans, April showers, autumn squalls,

in azure water colours paint Earth blue;

Look deep in this seascape, corals dying,

glaciers dissolving to mountain streams,

change dripping ever fast, still denying,

clinging like limpets to futile wet dreams;

As polluting greed, consumerism floats

our planet's drowning, shall we swim or sink

or go with the flow, our paddleless boat

till ravagers, rebels are both extinct;

the warming tide, sewage and plastic creeps,

Mother Nature dies, the blue planet weeps.