Calling turtles home for the lay
As moon speaks
Where squid sleep
Surfacing to spawn and display
In a harlequin hail
Corals join the orgy
Primed by tide and sun
Popping polyps like candy
The reef well begun
Only waters are changing
Warming too fast for ease
Creatures of the deep
Hear different bells
Tolling evolution
Adapt or die Darwinian style
No carillon to appease
And so species decease
Expendable in our eyes
For we ignore the tolling bell
Exploiting the seas gift
Coral bleached laid waste
It warns us of our greed
Changes must be made with haste
Or vengeance will be swift
No bell to toll for our nations
On a planet made sterile
We’re here by nature’s invitation
Even if only for a short while.
© shaun patrick green 2011
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