Graham Nash and David Crosby, “Wind On The Water”

"As I rocked in the moonlight,

And reefed the sail.

It'll happen to you

Also without fail,

If it happens to me.

Sang the world's last whale."

- Pete Seeger

“Wind On The Water”

by Graham Nash and David Crosby

"Over the years you have been hunted
by the men who threw harpoons,
And in the long run he will kill you
just to feed the pets we raise,
put the flowers in your vase,
and make the lipstick for your face.
Over the years you swam the ocean
Following feelings of your own,
Now you are washed up on the shoreline,
I can see your body lie,
It's a shame you have to die
to put the shadow on our eye.
Maybe we'll go,
Maybe we'll disappear,
It's not that we don't know,
It's just that we don't want to care.
Under the bridges,
Over the foam,
Wind on the water
Carry me home."

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"Requiem"

 

“The crucified planet Earth,

should it find a voice and a sense of irony,

might now well say of our abuse of it,

"Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do."

The irony would be that we know what we are doing.

When the last living thing has died on account of us,

how poetical it would be if Earth could say,

in a voice floating up perhaps

from the floor of the Grand Canyon,

"It is done. People did not like it here.”

- Kurt Vonnegut