David Taylor - Why Recycle?

A worn out shirt? well only the collar.
Used to be that we put on another.
The washing machines leaking!
It cheaper to buy one than getting in someone.
And how about that light in the hall.
You know there’s an offer to buy the whole thing,
that’s cheaper than buying some bulbs to put in.
And how about at work, in a disposable coat.
Soon I’ll be thrown on the heap with the rest we don’t keep.
Do you think that we have any hope?
The whole worlds gone mad,
a disposable feast of outrageous contempt
of our finer intent to treasure and value
the things which we use,
and not to abuse
this planet on which we all sleep..
But no, instead of treasuring, repairing and genuinely caring.
They tell us to recycle instead!

David Taylor

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