Where is the earth?
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It is not what I see before me now
It is not fields of identical crops
Or a factory crammed with cows
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Where is the earth?
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I knew the earth from long ago
Where the birds sing
And the waters flow
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Where is the earth?
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This is not how I remember her
What is it that covers the sea?
The mountains of plastic that suffocate her
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Where is the earth?
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We need her back
We need the tree and the coral
And the mushroom and the wolf pack
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Where is the earth?
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We have put down roots but I do not recall
Why we bruise her with trash
Pollute her air and strip her of all
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Where are we?
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We who have the power
We who have the wisdom
We who in our darkest hour
Must rise and change
And no longer be estranged
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From the mother
The home
The planet we call our own
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We who have put down roots must sprout into the sky
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But not as we have been
But be better and try
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Try to undo the damage we’ve done
And leave a better world for our daughters and sons
