I closed my eyes

for a fleeting moment

I swear I simply blinked

but when I woke

on some other planet

trees were all extinct!

I looked around

at the concrete pathways

that once led down to sea

but they were cracked

and I tripped and tumbled

people laughed at me!

I fell into

an indelible black hole

where forest once had grown

and went insane

at the frightened silence

all the birds had flown!

I tried to breathe

but had no credit card

to access open air

so wrote a poem

but a thought policeman

warned me: don't you dare!

I blinked again

and the vision faded

today came tripping by

my tears were real

as I looked around me

and watched the planet die!

More of my Environment Poems HERE