Where Do The Children Play?

Mommy

Let's go to the park

And play

I wanna climb that big tree again

Can we, please

I wanna go outside

And run around

Try to catch me if you can

Sorry, Justin

But the tree is gone

All the trees are gone

The park is gone

All the parks are gone

Highways, malls, banks and condos

Shiny glass

Let's go look at their majesty

What? Why? 

Well, Justy, the trees don't do any good

We, a-dolts need to make money

And buy stuff

That's how the world works, my dear

But, Mommy, they're no fun

And I don't wanna work

I wanna play

I want my tree

And the birds that sang to me in the tree

And remember the cute babies in the nest in the tree

I was the king of the castle in the tree

I know, my dear

But soon you'll learn

That only money matters

Even if our sanctuaries are gone

We even need to invade countries

And destroy their trees and parks

So we can bring back their resources

It's a-dolt stuff, you won't under-stand

But why don't people come play with me?

Why do adult want to fight and cut down the trees?

And the people in those banks and malls are not very friendly!

They keep asking me for money.

They don't want to share

Like you taught me to do

I don't want all that crap

I want my trees and birds and butterflies and bees and...

But, Justin, we need jobs and money

We even need all these pipelines to ship dirty dirty tar sands "oil"

We can't leave all that crap in the ground

We can make a lot of money

That way we can buy the stuff

We're convinced we need

And the food that we could have grown

Oh, and bottled water, since ours is polluted by the tar sands, cars, pesticides...

I don't under-stand you a-dolts, Mommy

You guys don't know how to play

Or be happy

So what am I supposed to do?

Where can I play, Mommy?

Where can I go that is quiet and dark at night

A place to breathe fresh air

A place to say Hi to my friends

My friends are gone

I'm so sad, Mommy

All I have is my phone to play on

I miss the trees

and the birds

and the butterflies

and the bees

and the frogs

and the spiders

and the running

and the climbing

and the singing

and the talking

and the listening

and the fun