Imagine an Ocean of Trash

I imagine there was once a day in history where a man or a woman could look over the side of a pier, or a balcony, or a cliffside that overlooked the sea and say, " What a beautiful ocean we live on! Surely there isn't a place more lovely than our earth!"

I imagine there was once a day in history when colorful fish or other sea life could happily swim among coral reefs and rocks without a worry in the world. That no creature would ever think of snagging their fins on plastic rings or accidentally consuming a plastic bag or two.

I imagine there may have once been a day where humans weren't so ignorantly careless and clueless about where they throw their trash, about how badly we harm our ecosystems and just how significant our influence is on this world. This world we claim is only ours, but are so abysmally mistaken.

Although I imagine plenty, there is one thing I would like definitively to get across:

I imagine a day when a careless, clueless, ignorant man or woman would get out of their seats and think, " What have we done? What have we done?"