And This Too Will Pass

So, we believe

Forest fires claiming lives,

Heat waves and sweltering heat,

Glaciers and avalanches strewing wrath,

Thinking moolah all the time.

What we’ve made of this earth, with all this loath?

Climate change is coffee-table talk,

We chatter and let it pass,

Carrying on with our hide bags and plastic smiles,

Masking pollution and shrugging ties.

Allowing this to pass; blaming, shaming, with all the lies.

What we’ve made of the earth, with all this loath?

We are the traffic, and the pollution,

We are the avalanches and the torrential rain,

The heat and volcanoes, forest fires, and all the pain.

We are the floods, we are the strain,

We are everything that causes the change.

Let’s rise and awake, do all we can,

Together let’s wage this war, victory is sure.