Bring me a lantern dear ,
Strike out the fire ,
for my bed awaits me at this late hour .
The curtain is drawn ,
my blanket lies o ,
I rest my weary head ,
and Oft to bed I go .
Awake me in a thousand years ,
Why don’t you ,
and watch over me as I sleep I pray ,
until I awake. .
For as long as I slept the earth froze ,
or cooked ,
or both !
and hell ( they called it that ) men died from its Icey breath ,
and even they cursed the day they were born .
Vermin rats mice scurried then froze to death as even they found no
relief from its polar vortex .
For babies were left out to die in its falling snow ,
Old men stumbled and fell near their homes ,
of which even they did not see again .
I turned and the earth burnt ,
It’s heat burnt forests and grass land as I slept ,
if the suns rays didn’t then man set woodland alight ,
for the thrill .
Men abandoned their pursuit of recreation and kept indoors ,
Until the heat from the sun had ran its course ,
and the earth found shade in the shadows of its night .
I turned again ,
Fly tippers left their unwanted garbage over farm land ,
at the end of the streets ,
In the country where ever they liked ,
for no one cared ,
Certainly not them .
Silt turned to mud and buried towns and fields ,
and man looked ever on lost in grief ,
or weighing their silver on scales of death .
Creatures of the deep of every kind lied dead from plastic bags and toys of every kind ,
Mattresses.,
Supermarket trolleys dumped .
Cans of fizzy drink were left discarded tossed on beaches .
Migrants sailed from their captive shores on dingy unfit for the sea .
they were swollowed whole by the great waters .
.
I turned again ,
Children wrote obscenity s on walls for their thrill ,
carried knives and stabbed each other ,
for their own gratification.
Then
A man who slept in a doorway awoke to freezing wind ,
a lady bent down with hot broth to warm his poor heart again .
Children with bags in hand picked up litter ,
And I awoke after a thousand years of wrong ,
the sun cranked the ice on rivers and lakes ,
and the man fell in love with the world again .
