A Place

         – said earth –

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– said earth –

Tho crave
From birth
To grave,
For worth
Ye want save, 
To be a place
Not but a cave,
Said earth, 
We'll find skirt
Or suffer waste,
Despite alert
Of mans tricks, 
Ample so to burst
This planet at risk, 
Not find accept
Failed mortals akin,
In state of our excess 
Hides yet a desolate grim,
Obscuring a need for address
Though mans memory grows thin, 
While he begs, for ignored redress
Ever so long, on a lost cause to win!
                       

	      © Jean-Jacques Fournier

	                        written in Sweetsburg 
                                       July 21, 2022
                              edited February 22, 2024

Imagery - Marianne Dessis 
Music – Tenderly by Chet Baker
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier