Humans Make Rubbish Pets

(A bit of doggerel about how bad Humans are for Planet Earth)

I brought me home a human being
They said it’s all the rage
They said that I could let it roam
It wouldn’t need a cage

Things started well, it must be said
Sitting by the fire
It claimed it had invented
Besides the rubber tire

After dabbling with steam
To drive things to a station
It then went on to invent
Internal combustation

Then it learnt how it could fly
And how to sail on wave
Now it conquered sea and sky
And how it misbehaved!

Having mastered half the world
Beneath its tiny feet
It started trampling everywhere
In search of things to eat

Soon the world was all used up
I felt such deep despair
What it had it couldn’t use
It pumped into the air

The world it started heating up
The other creatures suffered
The seas they started rising up
And woods and jungles withered

It gobbled up the fill of fields
Dug metals from the ground
And then it cast its eye to sky
To see what could be found

I feared it might escape the Earth
And tread among the stars
Leaving dirty footprints
Leaving dirty scars

There was one solution left
I could choose with a frown
To take the human to the vet
And have the sod put down!

It all could be so different if
Humans could be taught
The planet’s not for its amusement
A new one can’t be bought

If human being would just behave
Its brain says that it can
To use with care what’s free as air
Man sharing thing with man

So beware what you unleash
A pet’s for idle pleasure
If you release a greedy beast
You will repent at leisure

But in the end I’ve got to say
They don’t make too good pets
You can’t train ‘em – who can blame ‘em?
Just leave them at the vet’s!

The End