FIREWORKS DISPLAY

FIREWORKS DISPLAY                                                            Virginia Gow 01/01/13

Look! The humans queue for a day

To watch a fireworks display

Costing millions, but who pays?

Whilst in Sarawak a dam is built

To destroy a river, there is no guilt!

Displace human habitat, a sense of place.

Create more misery, down forests in haste.

Ancient cultures lost in the mists.

Who knows or cares about the risks.

To forest air, we breathe in vain.

Fight for the rights of these nature folk.

United Nations, this is no joke.

Are humans never going to learn

That by their greed, all Earth will burn?

So do the ones from outer space,

Queue to watch this planet

Go up in smoke?

Now that’s a fireworks display

That beats all those around the world,

A great big bang, to our dismay.