RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: CLIMATE CHANGE
Yosemite Burning
We are the caretakers of the land
And we have failed our charge
Yosemite Valley is on fire
Wawona is burning
The towering Sequoias
Trees that have survived millennia
The passing of wars
The ravages of logging
The age of industrialization
Now face the threat of warming
There is something quite obscene
About destroying ancient beings
Far older and infinitely more majestic
Than modern civilization
It is a failure of our culture
And a failure of our nation
That our most prized possessions
Our land our parks our forests
Our natural wonders
Now face an existential threat
And we can do little
To prevent it
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