Please, have mercy Untie me from this ever-burning stake Diseased, never asked for this Gave us all we need All this draining, destroying Our home is weathered and scarred Glisten on the surface, rotten epidermis Spread as cancer through her skin Her skies bleeding the essence From our living, everchanging home Breathe, is this all a sick sad dream? I've been waiting but I can't see a sign of relief Oh, will you ever learn? No end will justify the means No validation will stitch up your seams Pale into insignificance Extinction knows no different A grain of salt in a sea of ignorance Trust that time will not remember us I stood atop a canopy Of trees petrified and charred Whispering so faintly As the wind blew through the scars The soil speaks to me Weeping in my ear We've ignored all the pleading Point no blame, the plague is in us all The skies are screaming The oceans, they're weeping Listen, the land is pleading No more, no more, no more Contagious We're all infected with fear of our demise Why is it so hard to see We are the only ones ending these lives? Can't see the forest for the trees Lost in the abyss as it stares back at me Won't smell the burning beneath your feet Guided by fear This world knows not to be free