Noise

Of places to escape from twenty first century noise not many today

And this seems a sad thing for to have to say

With the noise volume getting louder by the year

The songs of the birds getting harder to hear

In noise there is money by many we are told

But this is not wisdom from the days of old

Noise pollution is preventing some species of birds for to breed

The males to mate to hear other males singing in them there is the need

In a wood near a big freeway in London going back years ago

That the chaffinches there were not breeding happens to be so

The constant loud noise of traffic on the nearby freeway

Was the reason for this environmental scientists did say

Some aspects of human progress we ought not to celebrate

One of these the constant loud noise that we do create.