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LFAS: The Killing Sound
Deep within the ocean waters
Where mighty whales conduct their symphonies
And dolphins sing with sons and daughters
The hand of man extends its cruelty
We’re blasting sounds so loud they’re killing
Cetacean life in every ocean
Heedless of the blood we’re spilling
Our hearts are closed to their emotion
The reason for this mindless bloodshed
The pols will claim are lurking dangers
From submarines with heartless warheads
From foreign countries we call strangers
They claim the danger’s not severe
That they can stop the sound when there are
Whales or dolphins coming near
But if that’s true then tell me why are
Mammals washing up on beaches
With their inner ears exploded
In places where the sound wave reaches?
Your hazard risks are sugarcoated
For short-term interests, we are willing
To undo nature’s timeless tending
Of living creatures, and go on killing
The very life that we depend on
What will I say to my grandchildren’s
Questions about how this happened?
How could a world of caring citizens
Ignore the welfare of their brethren?
We justify our domineering
By demonizing every rival
But wages of fear-based profiteering
Threaten most our own survival
Might it be better to lend a hand
To those unlike us from foreign lands
To yoke our fortunes and understand
The commonweal, the common strand
That links our futures, for great or ill?
Let’s heed our Constitution’s call
For equal rights, freedom and goodwill
For humans and nature – for one and all
So stop this toxic sonification
Of our oceans, and free our nations
To undertake true education:
To heal our planet and all relations
(c) 1999 by John-Michael Dumais
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