Today is Earth Day
The Will
This is the Last Will and Testament
This is my inheritance
For what it’s worth
To the warmongers
Tyrants and kings
I bestow you medals
For your arrows and slings
Deep underground
In your bunkered prisons
Too late in the day
For your newfound wisdom
To the industrialists and politicians
Obsessed with growth
Who’ve knowingly broken
Many a pledge and troth
I bequeath you status
And unlimited power
Surveying devastation
From your ivory towers
To the billionaires
In your capsules in space
I leave the diamonds
You tore from my face
The things you deem precious
All my silver and gold
For you to count
As you grow old
To the descendants
Of those I first bore
Who bred and swarmed
In the pursuit of more
I leave you the memory
Of what you once had
Before you tarred my skin
And those you thought mad
Had YOU had the Will
To change your course
I would live still
To be your source
Signed by Planet Earth:
at the eleventh hour
Witnessed by:
Every environmental organisation and activist ever to exist
Thanks to Dave Burnham for this great piece!