FULL CIRCLE (1975)

This planet Earth which man in frenzied haste
Contaminates, pollutes, destroys with nuclear waste
Lays bare that which was green and pleasant land.
Dear Mother Earth, how can you understand.
A thousand million years of your creations
of oil, coal and ore to feed the nations
for all eternity, are now no more.
Mans need, or greed, is greater than before.

What will this generation leave behind, what heritage
for people doomed to follow in some future age.
A plundered Earth, with nothing more to give -
A planet, dead, with no will left to live.
“What then” we ask, to which our men of learning say
“Men will survive when Earth is dead for they
will venture forth in space and build a nation”
But whence the fuel for space-ship emigration?

Thus in their man-made poisoned hell they meet their doom,
And mighty building tumble down to form their tomb.
With empty womb now, will our tired old Mother Earth,
concerned and plagued no longer with mankind and birth,
spin off, and find a place among the stars
To rest some million years or so, and heal her scars.
Till Nature, never daunted, starts again to plan
A microscopic life that will evolve, once more, to man.