Time Won't Remember Us

Please, have mercy
Untie me from this ever-burning stake
Diseased, never asked for this
Gave us all we need
All this draining, destroying
Our home is weathered and scarred

Glisten on the surface, rotten epidermis
Spread as cancer through her skin
Her skies bleeding the essence
From our living, everchanging home

Breathe, is this all a sick sad dream?
I've been waiting but I can't see a sign of relief
Oh, will you ever learn?
No end will justify the means
No validation will stitch up your seams

Pale into insignificance
Extinction knows no different
A grain of salt in a sea of ignorance
Trust that time will not remember us

I stood atop a canopy
Of trees petrified and charred
Whispering so faintly
As the wind blew through the scars
The soil speaks to me
Weeping in my ear
We've ignored all the pleading
Point no blame, the plague is in us all

The skies are screaming
The oceans, they're weeping
Listen, the land is pleading
No more, no more, no more

Contagious
We're all infected with fear of our demise
Why is it so hard to see
We are the only ones ending these lives?
Can't see the forest for the trees

Lost in the abyss as it stares back at me
Won't smell the burning beneath your feet
Guided by fear
This world knows not to be free