Seven Billion Save One Million? — Mary and Forrest Heaton Publications

When I Was Seven

When I was seven

Learning about the world

From Mom & Dad

Stories unfurled

About life and family

And boys and girls

And Earth, plants and animals

Space beyond this world.

Now six years shy

Of eighty-seven

I’ve learned a bit

‘Tween Earth and Heaven

This fragile spaceship

In celestial roam

For plants, animals, humans

Is our only home.

Thus, what to make

Of mass extinction

Of one million species

Due to poor education?

Forget politics, that’s excuse

For greed causing environmental abuse

Each of us, currently seven billion,

Can do our part to save one million!