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Incandescent

Writer's picture: Words Among TreesWords Among Trees

Our lungs are burning

yet ignorance keeps growing

flowing into polluted politics

natural disasters versus corruption

Presidents that blink not an eye

Governments that never ask why

our lungs are burning as we die

the Amazon rainforests

produce twenty to thirty percent

of oxygen in the world each year

still - our lungs are burning

with not a sentence

from mainstream media

ignorance continues to seep through

the innocence of Gaia's shroud

three weeks without intervention

our oxygen is depleting day by day

how will we breathe now






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For those unaware, parts of the Amazon Rainforest have been on fire for THREE weeks with hardly any mainstream media reporting such, so now you know...



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