I Long For

I long for a place of human created noise free
With Nature's own beauty everywhere around me
Free of pollution where birds sing all day
Far from where factory chimneys puff up smoke clouds of gray

Such places are rare which seems quite sad to say
For urbanization and industrialization there is some price to pay
I long for a cottage far from the noisy street
Near a wood not far from where a stream and a river do meet

In a World of billions of people Nature's creatures are losing out
In the pools of the rivers less fish swimming about
In a World where us humans in huge numbers abound
Far too much pollution of air and water and ground

With Nature most of us humans have not learned how to live
We take and take from her and in return to her little does give
Because of us many species of wildlife are becoming rare
Nature's resources with them we have not learned how to share

Of the noise of heavy machinery i long to be free
On a nice sunny day sitting in the shade of a tree
In kilometers far from the crowded street
Near where the stream and the river do meet.