Beautiful world,

You sing with the sound of mountains in the distance

Harmonize with shadows cast

You hum to the rhythm of a thousand blinking suns

and dance with shores of glass

It hurts to hear you cry out

Your skin scorched by acid rain

Burning from Californian drought

You’re parched, feeling our pain

Beautiful world,

You seem in a melancholy haze

Missing the parts that make you whole

Constantly fearful of the coming days

No one playing their rightful role

I hate to see you melting

And simultaneously freeze

You find yourself conflicting

While we cut down your trees

Beautiful world, are you still there? 

All alone, choking from the smoke

I heard you then, I barely hear you now

World, you struggle on with such grit

I know our blindness has taken a toll

I saw your beauty and thought nothing of it

When it was in my hands to hold