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Created on: April 10, 2009
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Angels grieve whenever you shed your tears,
Your body is shaking and trembling, dear.
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Do you still have a shoulder to cry on?
A gentle ear to uphold their reasons.
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Your scathed beauty is a product of greed,
to achieve progress, you gladly concede.
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Your sustenance given generously,
left you broken, tired, and oh, so sickly.
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These nations panicked when you were afraid
no words depicted these trails in a faze.
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Oceans are smothered and skies are tainted.
Your forests and farms have now been flattened.
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Traded for wealth, power and advancement,
species extinct, with our choices, flagrant.
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Longed for the touch of a birth impeded,
the earth cried out, humanity listened.
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This coming dawn convey support and trust.
Healing you now with conviction and just.
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Your tears remind us of promises made,
that Mother earth may somehow, still be saved.
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