THIS POEM IS DEDICATED TO MY HERO AND BEST FRIEND DEBRA W, A RARE AND BEAUTIFUL JEWEL

 

IT DOESN’T MATTER WHICH SIDE OF THE FENCE YOUR ON

NO POINTING FINGERS OF WHO IS RIGHT OR WRONG

A CERTAIN DEATH SENTENCE FOR THE HUMAN RACE

WHILE ARGUMENTS GO ON WITH SOME USELESS DEBATE

WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO KEEP OUR HEAD IN THE SAND

BECAUSE THE TIME THAT WE MUST ACT IS NOW AT HAND

TAKING A HARD LOOK AT OURSELVES IS WHERE WE BEGIN

BECAUSE THE WILL TO SURVIVE, COMES FROM DEEP WITHIN

 

THE WORLD IS GETTING HOTTER THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT

CATASTROFIC, EXTREMES OF WEATHER, DAY IN, DAY OUT

CYCLONES AND THUNDERSTORMS DUMPING FLOODING RAINS

HARDLY A DROP FOR THE DROUGHT PARTCHED RIDDEN PLAINS

INLAND RIVERS SCARCELY FLOWNG, SOME ARE RUNNING DRY

LEADING TO VAST FISH KILLS THAT BRINGS A TEAR TO THE EYE

THE POWERS THAT BE CAN NO LONGER GO HIDING THEIR HEADS

OUR POLITICANS CAN’T GO ON SHARING THE RICH MAN’’S BED

 

BUSHFIRES SO MASSIVE THEY CAN BE SEEN FROM SPACE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   THE ONCE LIVING FOREST NOW A DEAD, DESERLATE PLACE

MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPES THAT WERE ONCE A SIGHT TO BE SEEN

LIFELESS AND BLACKEND FROM WHERE DEADLY FIRES HAVE BEEN

EXPERTS TELL US, GLACIERS ARE MELTING AT AN UBELIEVABLE RATE

IN THE ALP’S THEY DISCOVERED A NEWLY FORMED MOUNTAIN LAKE

AVALANCHES, LANDSLIDES, MUDSLIDES, LEAVING LITTLE TO SURVIVE

SHATTERED FAMILIES, STOLEN DREAMS, SO MANY BROKEN LIVES

 

KILLER ARCTIC BLASTS BRINGING METER UPON METER OF SNOW

LEAVING THE UNLUCKY HOMELESS, WITH NO WARM PLACE TO GO

MONSOONS, TYPHOONS HURRICANS ALL VERGING ON A CATORGORY 5

QUESTION, DOES MANKIND HAVE THE ‘’WILL’’ IT WILL TAKE TO SURVIVE??

THE OCEANS ARE RISING, YOU ONLY HAVE TO ASK THE ISLAND NATION’S

THEIR HOMES, THEIR LANDS, THEIR LIVELYHOODS FACING INNUNDATION

EACH DAY THE RISING SEA RELENTLESSLY CREEPS TOWARD THEIR DOOR

NOW THE IDEALIC ISLAND LIFESTYLE DOESN’T SEEM SO IDEALIC ANYMORE

 

IT TAKES FOR US TO CHANGE OUR WAYS ON HOW WE THINK AND ACT

EVERYBODY HAS TO COME TO ACCEPT THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS FACT

WE CAN’T STALL ANY LONGER, WE’RE AT THE POINT OF NO RETURN

GETTING PEOPLE TO REALISE THIS, IS AT PRESENT, THE MAIN CONCERN

WE MUST FIGHT TO SAVE THE PLANET AND AS WELL THE HUMAN RACE

THE RISK IS, OUR HOME BECOMING SUCH AN INHOSPITABLE PLACE

MAKE NO MISTAKE THE TIME IS HERE WE DON’T GET A SECOND CHANCE

EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD MUST BE WILLING TO TAKE A STANCE

 

DRAMATIC CHANGE IS NEEDED TO GIVE PLANET A CHANCE TO REVIVE

WITHOUT IT, HUMANITY AND LIFE AS WE NOW KNOW IT, CAN’T SURVIVE

IF IT SEEMS AT TIMES LIKE OTHERS AREN’T WILLING TO DO THEIR SHARE

THAT’S NO EXCUSE TO STOP YOUR EFFORTS, THERE’S SO MUCH TO REPAIR

WHAT’S DONE IS DONE, THE TIME HAS COME TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED

WE MUST FACE THE FACT THAT WE ALL MUST ACT, IT’S TIME WE GET STARTED

NO RATIONALISING OR JUSTIFYING OF WHAT WE SHOULD OR SHOULDN’T DO

BECAUSE THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, THE PLANET IS DEPENDING ON YOU

 

 

 

ALL WORDS OF POETRY&RHYME WRITTEN AND OWNED BY STEVE NEW