SycamoreBlue

We Stand Smug We imagine ourselves advanced And each summer, wage war against bugs Then stand surprised to find butterflies and bees in serious decline We consider ourselves wise Pumping out poisons year after year into our fertile cropland Ignoring the growing silence of dead birds We tout ourselves as green Establishing solar arrays and wind farms Happy as long as the cobalt and lithium mines and slave labor stays out of sight of our pristine backyards We think ourselves enlightened Rewilding huge swaths of land Then can't figure out why massive forest fires keep happening We congratulate ourselves for nature conservancy While Right Whales are murdered by wind farms And we turn a blind eye to China sucking our oceans dry of fish We are the caretakers of Earth We stand smug While Earth weeps