ODES

I love limericks!

ODE TO OUR DEAR PLANET EARTH

Yes, Chicken Little, it’s falling
It’s lost its cerulean hue
The rich now have support
with new rules from the court
to befoul and obscure it from view.

But it’s not just our skies we will mourn
as the locks of protections are shorn.
Those controlling the strings
love the chaos it brings
as the rules are all shredded and torn.

The once lusted for jewel in their crown
was bought by enshrining some clowns.
A treasonous heart
qualifies for the part
that requires any qualms to be drown.

The court let the bullies hold sway.
They intend to pollute every day.
It’s become very clear
in just a few years
Mother Nature will make us all pay.

As the mercury shoots to the top
saner voices implore them to stop.  
But the rich just divert us
by staging a circus
Then give the drill all that they’ve got.

These powers that think they’re immune
plan escapes to hermetical rooms.
When the earth starts to roil
from their ill-gotten oil
may they realize, they too share the doom.