TO A HAPPIER AGE

“THE KIND OF PEOPLE WE LEAVE BEHIND

SHALL ACHIEVE WHERE WE ALL FAILED

SHALL BE MORE THOUGHTFUL AND KIND

AND FREE THE PLANET THAT WE JAILED.”

EARTH GAVE US EVERYTHING SHE COULD

AND YET, WE THREW HER IN A PRISON CELL

WE RUSHED TO GROW IN OUR CHILDHOOD

AND NOW, AGAINST OUR MOTHER WE REBEL.

WE LASHED OUT, HIT HER, AND WE SAID A LOT

LEAVING EARTH WITH ALL KINDS OF WOUNDS

THEN WE ALSO WITH OUR BROTHERS FOUGHT

OVER HER BODY LINES, AND FOOLISH FEUDS.

OUR MOTHER STAYED SILENT FOR LOTS OF YEARS

WEPT NOT FOR HERSELF, BUT FOR HER OFFSPRING

FOR ALL LIFE, AS SPECIES BY SPECIES DISAPPEARS

AND THIS TIME WON’T COME BACK WITH THE SPRING.

FOR MOST OF US, IT TOOK SOME TIME TO REALIZE

SOME ALWAYS KNEW, AND SOME STILL CAN’T SEE

BUT LET US ALL UNITE WITH OPEN ARMS AND EYES

LET US ASK FORGIVENESS, LET US SET EARTH FREE.

TIME IS ON OUR SIDE. FUTURE STILL LOOKS BRIGHT.

WE CAN BECOME THE EXAMPLE AND THE CHANGE

WE CAN FILL OUR HEARTS WITH LOVE AND LIGHT

AND LEAD OUR SUCCESSORS TO A HAPPIER AGE.