As our planet burns, people starve and species suffer extinction at an alarming rate, should we relegate ourselves as watchers, powerless to stave ignorance and greed's insistent clamouring for more? Condolences to Gaea is a poet's expression protesting the mindless, violent, selfish, often religious rationale for self over the wellbeing of our planet's countless, marvellous inhabitants. The thematic arc encompasses paeans to those wonderful people recognizing Mankind's imperative to intelligently address life's accelerating demise and includes introspective musings by an author vacillating between dire pessimism and joyful optimism.