Poetry – Icecaps and Polar Bears

 

Icecaps and Polar Bears

 

Icecaps and polar bears,

Penguins and seals,

Whales and walruses;

They’re heading for the hills.

 

Seas are rising.

Land is getting hot.

Hurricanes and droughts.

The climate is shot.

 

Burning up the coal

The oil and the gas.

Breeding like rabbits.

Chasing the cash.

 

We haven’t woken up yet

To the time that’s running out.

We need to wake up

To what it’s all about.

 

Out there on Venus

It’s four hundred degrees.

If we don’t act soon

It’ll bring us to our knees.

 

Opher – 23.8.2020