The spirit of the caves spoke:
Who is that with the eyes of gold shining down her face?
The Sun said -
It is I, Sun Queen, don't you know it is to me you owe your grace
The Spirit cried:
no, for millions of years you've dried and scorched this place!
The Sun said:
no my dear, it was the doing of your Martian race.
They tried to build ladders up to the sky,
They reached beyond their reach
And from that pride they would surely die
It was as the Martian prophets preached
To try to touch heaven is a mark of pride
So many have done it failed and died
But what they missed in the offing was
To hold on tight to their cherished land
The spirit of the cave looked sad,
How can this be, that they never knew what they had?
Tried to stretch when they should have stayed still
Tried to fetch the impossible will
What destiny has taught them
Is to remain where water still runs in rills
The chorus of the Martian sand dunes
Then all sang in choir:
Oh what has happened to our promised land?
Oh look what has befallen us!
Take heed ye giants and heroes of other planets
Not to follow the example set by us
The water spirits who once lived on Mars are now sleeping in the sand
Take heed, take heed they sing anon in their water lost song
Water water nowhere,and not a drop to drink
The ice fox and polar bear, are unbearably white in ink
The turtle and the whale who once swam our seas
Are lost in the sands of time
Rolled under the rug of memory
And folds of slime and unbegotten mud layer the deep Martian plain
Like an ocean these desert dunes roll on
Swept by the red winds of a planet's pain
Blood red in autopsy of the crime
The all seeing moon Phoebus sings:
My eyes are filled with red, from the blood planet's suffering
I lost my rings, have you found them?
I lost my wedding bells
They lie broken in the sandy ground
No more do their joyous songs sound
I saw destruction from my cold height
But I was hot with rage
Oh these Martians caused the onset
Of the next ice age
How when they had plundered the Martian crust
For all it was worth they turned their greedy eyes abroad to rust
And rest on Mother Earth
But in building their starships
They were taken ill in toil
And famine, pestilence and starvation
Crept upon them like a relentless snail
But it did catch them in the end
For finally their mission failed
With the loss of resources came the fight for land
And wars sprang up across the globe near and far at hand
Which none could hope to solve or understand
They fought until every last Martian soon was bleeding their blood
Into the ground
Then my eyes turned red to see the flood
Of blood leave its gruesome trail
Abandoned of its life the planet gave up too
And gravity a friend to so many, now became
a bind for two
The last two souls left alive Martian Adam and a Martian Eve
And they left the planet on the last transport
Out to a distant reprieve
abandoned now the planet turned in its red sunset sinking way,
out across the solar field for forever and a day
Then Mother Earth spoke
Her voices sounded shrill
As the yelp of a pup:
Help, help the whelp
They're doing the same to me
My forest fires are burning
Polluted are my seas
My whale's song is drowning
In the dirty tides of misery
The men in their factories
The women in their yards
Building suiting and soldering
Robots for iron hearts
And doing their bidding
And bidding them well
Though they know not their nature's
Are in artificial hell
Developed and exploited
By the few who smell
Money at the bottom
Of the wishing well
Take heed, take heed the Angels cried
From a top the mountains
The well is drying, soon no more
Will flow the fountain
Take heed take heed the wolves howled
Take heed the bears baulked
Take heed the foxes spouted
Take heed the Herons squarked
Listen to mother nature
For she is whispering quietly to us
Press your ears to the ground and feel her cries
Of pain and anguish
No pain no gain cried the fat factory controller
No gain, no rain cried the weathermen
No money no honey cried the cockerel in the morning
Who was following the weather vein
No Sun no flower cried the honey bee
Who was shivering and dying
In an acid rain shower
No love no money cried the woman to the man
Ain't it funny hunny, cried the man back again
And the sworded word fish darted through the shallows
Because that was getting to be all that was left to him
And he looked up through his silver scaled eye
And saw the moon
The moon reflected the sun
Said - I am the voice of all mysteries past
What I have seen has come and gone so fast
I never forgot and I never laughed
Because I have seen life come and go
And I always will last
A reflected glory is what I am
I tell my story to the little lamb
Who comes into this world bleating and damned
To be another leg of mutton
But I shine on like a button
Lost in the endless threads of space
In the sewing basket of a pin cushion sky
That shines with a trillion pin pricks
And I say we are lost like a needle in a haystack
And all this mystery is fantasy
And all this fantasy is mystery
And what I am I am
And can be no other
Brother Sun and sister moon
I look upon the Earth gone soon
And at my back goes red Mars
Streaking a bloody horizon
Sister Sun and brother moon
The yin and yang
Of the silver balloon that floats above
But the big bang
Will soon cause a mighty implosion
Up and down in and out
The breathing fire
Of inward doubt
The cave spirit rushes
From hole to hole checking nightly
For the water vole
She was here I swear I saw a mouse
Creeping through my dark red house
But low and behold the water ran out
And then so too did the little red mouse
