DESPAIR POEM
Here on this human infested planet
We watch the climate change
Like arms on a clock
Tick tock tick tock
The summers getting hotter, drier, deader
Flash floods and fires
We gaze silently as if watching it unfold on our screens
Scrolling scrolling scrolling past
Not reacting, not fighting back
Do we trust that our politicians will enact change? Never!
Do we care so little about the future?
The future of our only known liveable planet,
The future of our children we keep birthing?
Replacing hope with materialism, capitalism, apathy
Why aren't we reacting? Why aren't we demanding change?
Mad Max used to be so alien to us
Now it seems a certain reality
The politicians glorify industry
Throw cash in their pots and mollycoddle them.
Why do the richest men make all the decisions?
While legal systems jail environmental protesters!
Our democracy lacks democracy
Here on this human infested planet
Colette Harmsen, peaceful forest protester, planet earth ♡♡♡
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