The world is screaming

Can’t you hear?

A guy-wrenching cry

That grows worse every year

The birds have all migrated

Each to their own stars

That are scared away by cities

That are overrun with cars

Overpriced, and cranky cars

That yell and speed and stall

Unnecessarily necessary cars

I wish I could bury them all

Bury? How could we?

There’s nowhere to dig

For we’ve downsized our world

Just to make it seem big

And the world is still screaming

Or have you forgot?

We forget, how easy it is to forget

When we’ve spend our lives learning to rot