Tonight's the night little mango seed
You've been sitting in my sink
For the last few days but
Tonight's the night
So many of your sisters and brothers
Get tossed out into the darkness of plastic bags
Taken out to dumpsters with garbage
To pile up and accumulate in seas and landfills
Where nothing can grow or flourish
But tonight's the night
I smuggle you out onto the soil
To live or die free among other plants
This is the fighting chance
We all deserve
Plants and animals and humans alike
To grow and blossom
I do hope you grow
We need more trees... new trees
Help replace the ones we cut down and
Consume for paper and chairs and steps
Yes I know...
It would be great to replant trees in the Amazon
But I'm not in the Amazon
I'm here and
I have this seed
From this mango I ate
Mango and watermelon and guinep and cashew apples and
That patch of vegetation growing wild
And free over there will do just fine
Now
There you go
Even if you don't grow
You'll break down and
Help replenish the earth
This earth that is so much in need of replenishing