The great Barrier reef (its beyond belief to hear this )

The great barrier reef
you can see it from space
a vast undersea paradise
lost without trace
blame it on star fish
the great crown of thorns
blame it on nature
however, she warns
run off is up there
it certainly must
all of that pesticide
it does disgust
of course its evil
and sensitive souls
under the sea
unlike the trolls
on earth
locked into dosh
locked into profit
allow it to wash
over the land
and into the sea
its vile and complex
and dangerously
imbalancing everything
everywhere
creating shocks beyond
what’s fair
the corals murmur
the corals die
therein the problems
underlie

but now Big Coal
with its massive plans
to excavate with dirty hands
to extract the coal
that fossil fuel
and to exact an energy
that is cruel

on the organisms the life out there
where millions of species
are aware
of the place they live in
and die in belief
they make up what we see
the barrier reef
a wondrous sight we can see from space
this is where
this is something we all must face

the corporate monsters
just entities
they have no heart
or soul
they seize whatever opportunity
there is to take control
they muster and they bluster
and for what, to extract coal

and, they have all the arguments
and, they have all the power
and, they have lots of backing
attacking that great brain
that rules them that just drives them
its profit, profit, profit
its about what they can gain

what others lose doesn’t matter
its not even in the frame
and they have a lot of money
so the rules are not the same
there’s those who care
about the world, the planet
the resource
and those who like the money
and their ideas they will force

to me its so alarming
how the engine in them turns
they would take a pristine life force
and watch it as it burns
see it crumble see it die
and, they wouldn’t even sigh
lose no sleep no prophets here
no long term thinking
that’s now clear

The Barrier Reef of course its great
Australia just don’t take the bait
whatever they tell you it isn’t true
and the long term damage that it will do
its insupportable its just too vile
to imagine, its just off the dial
Big Coal I’m sorry that we gave you
the power to run roughshod and to screw
the natural world, and think nothing, we
were not living with integrity

the prediction I can’t think about
this phenomena there is now no doubt
as witnesses to the coming pain
each incarnation would be in vain
experiencing our insanity
of why it happened actually
how our judgement had reached such a low
how enmeshed in guilt we had joined the flow

regrets mean nothing when all is lost
when the power you had has clearly cost
everything you had had, and felt
as once beside a grave, you knelt
remembering what you gave away
on what was just a sunny day