October 15, 2019Poem

A climate of change

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A climate of change

Stand together

Save the world

Bring it back

From extinction

Strip away the layers

Of burnt offerings

A Millennium of

Atomic number six

Six?

Six?

Clogging its lungs

With a lack of irony

Let it breathe

Before extermination

Is complete

The hot crust

Devoid of cultivation

Once upon a garden

So terribly transformed

The hospitable

Become hostile

Where good intention

Has been forgot

A promised land

Now stolen

A future bartered

In profit

Where loss

Is more than financial

Ruin less dramatic

Than the true

Cost of termination

Unless we retreat

From the precipice

The earth beneath

Our feet

Will disintegrate

In the heat

Until nothing remains

Of Man’s domain

At all,

But a record

Of the fall.