Saturday, September 04, 2021

Fire & Floods

RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: CLIMATE CHANGE

 

Fire & Floods

 

Rain floods the east coast

From Philly to Manhattan

Get out of the way if you’re able

Find shelter if you can

 

Fires rage in California

Pristine Lake Tahoe in the path

Testing our perseverance

Challenging nature’s wrath

 

Punishing heat pounds New Orleans

In the wake of a hurricane

The people survive without power

Though their will to live wanes

 

The days of reckoning are upon us

It arrives in seven waves

Fire wind rain and pestilence

All combine to induce rage

 

We can walk in place no longer

It is time to raise the roof

No longer can we be passive

We can no longer be aloof

 

If this is the final hour

If these are the final days

Let it be said I was impassioned

Let it be said my part I played

 


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