RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL WARMING
Western Wildfires
From California throughout the west
We’ve put firefighters to the test
So here’s to all you climate deniers
Your legacy is a trail of fire
Massive swaths of land destroyed
Pristine forest and small towns
Villages and country schools
Fields of green are turning brown
The land grows dry and brittle
A desperate need for rain
Branches crack and fall to earth
Whole crops of fruit and grain
We know we’re in for hard times
We are paying for our past
We acted out of avarice
We knew it could not last
We wish we’d done things differently
We catered to deniers
Now we watch our homelands burn
In a legacy of fire