Endgame

It doesn’t take a Herculean effort / to see that life on this fragile blue planet / is becoming precarious and more than it / can contain is coming down on it / as nature writhes around in a febrile fit / while we transform each forest into a barren desert / and there seems no easy way of stopping it / as each corporation grasps for its share of the profit / we see the loud mouthed social media misfits / and hear all the political spin prophets / selling their souls on the back of it / and looking away from change in the climate / as they continue to deny there’s anything in it. // 

This is more than a tragic shame / and we all need to take the blame / rich and poor, all of us are just the same / no excuses, whether justified or lame / we just sold our planet down the lane / when we took our eyes off the ball in the game / and our children’s futures are running down the drain / as we start the countdown for this planet's endgame. // 

We have long been abusing our tenure / when we think we can do what we want here / but as the sea levels rise dangerously higher / and destructive storms become increasingly stronger / and drought and floods are an imminent danger / the odds are becoming so much longer // 

as we try to prolong our collective survival / our carbon emissions stand without rival / and you know this stuff is far from trivial / though the will to stop it ain’t controversial / but all of the top climate change deniers / and the myriad ignorant science decriers / conveniently overlook all the facts in the files / they’re fiddling while the earth is on fire / like Nero did as Rome’s flames burnt higher / every last one of them is an absolute liar / each one is a self-interested betrayer / all part of a cabal of elite conspirers / hellbent on taking this down to the wire / while the Earth sits upon its own funeral pyre / and the future for our children is critically dire / and the world’s population is foundering in the mire // 

We’re living in a world of torment / where we all of us could easily prevent / the world’s next extinction level event / if only we would mutually consent / to limit the rubbish we have sent / up into the sky and the firmament / we know the atmosphere is not infinite / and our resources were never permanent / but the population seems to be hell bent / on a global scenario involving detriment //

The exponential rise in killer diseases / signals imminent destruction of our species / and while our survival chance decreases / it’s likely we’ll see the mass decimation / of our society in this next generation / with industrialised total domination / and ecological saturation / through the wanton, thoughtless jeopardization / of the health and safety of the population. //

This is more than a tragic shame / and each of us need to accept this blame / rich and poor, we’re all in this the same / there can be no excuses, whether justified or lame / for the way humanity has played this game / we collectively sold this planet down the lane / each of us has initiated this planet’s endgame // 

Steve Wheeler © 12 November, 2020

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