By Penelope Salmon
Mutating our food, water and air
Telling us how to think, what to wear
Killing our badgers, felling our trees
Shooting our deer, ignoring our pleas
We’re caught in their lie, broadsheets of fear
And when we ask why?
There’s no-one to hear
Selling our land, polluting our water
Feeding us drugs, blind led to the slaughter
It’s time to be heard, acknowledge the lie
We’re all in this together
It’s wake up or fry!
So those who figure they’re up on the news
Reading over and over the same again views
Or those who think politics more than a game
And vote every time, always the same
Then wonder why nothing seems to improve
But keep on believing with faith, even love
That America God Bless Her and Great Britain too
Have the truth in a bag and know what to do
Protect us from evils they tell us exist
Then put millions of lives at terrible risk
Compassion and love doesn’t kill
Doesn’t maime
Lives lost for oil and material gain
We have to know they don’t protect us
But live to control us
Manipulators!
And in every battle two sides will gain
We need to know
Those two sides are the same!
If you want life to change, to care for the land
It’s time to speak up,
Take the future in hand!
We’re reaching the point where there is no return
Wake up and speak out!
Or sleep rot and burn!
If enough of us gather
There’s a chance we’ll be heard
To keep living this way
Is more than absurd
Say No to
Toxic waste
Nuclear power and radiation
Say No to
Plastics
Slave labour and degradation
Say No to
Corruption
Animal cruelty and perverted priests
Say No to
Monsanto
Oil spills and manmade disease
Say No to
Fracking
Tax evasion and child porn
Say No to
Factory farms
GM crops and rhino horn
If you want to live with fish in the seas
A sustainable planet with forests of trees
Take energy from the wind, the sun and the water
Look forward to a life for your sons and your daughters
Penelope Salmon is an environmentalist and artist. She has spent the last 16 years creating an eco retreat in Southern Spain – completely off-grid with wind and solar power and market gardens – a celebration of nature. Discover more at www.utopianretreats.com 
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