Climate Destruction

Climate Destruction

Casting gray hues to wipe out the blue
The sunshine days are so invisible
The heat suppresses the air
Heavy as a weighted blanket
It’s gravity brings woe
Hard to walk and breathe
Through to where I want to be.

The climate destruction grates comfort
Down into flaming grains of sand
My skin fries in the sun
And the ocean sizzles
Life below the waves calcifies
Corral bleaches white while rich men
Line their pockets and take selfies.

We burn fossil fuels with impunity
Cutting down the Amazon
Robbing the lungs of the Earth
Choking our planet to death
Mendacity makes us ignorant
The Sun continues its journey
While we dance to our doom.

Stealing a world our children inherit
Our greatest crime is an empty present
To unleash warm, swelling oceans
Melting glaciers and ice bergs
Unleashing hurricanes
Droughts drying up our crops
Expires our futures all for greed.

The days of lying to ourselves
And hoping it isn’t true are now over
The climate change crisis is
A nightmare we have awakened
This isn’t cyclical; it’s scientific evidence
Right in front of our faces
And the lies keep coming.

Copyright © 2023 Charles Edward York
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