Climate Crisis
To change the mindset
Of a planet?
We, the people of the planet
Cannot.
Study children in a class:
Do children grasp
En masse
The same way,
Same day, or at all?
Alas,
A lasting harmony,
A commonality, a unity is only
Foreplay to disorder;
Froth, faith, myth; youth-grounded truth:
It can’t endure.
Crisis means a danger time,
A turning point,
A critical catas…disas-trophe;
A time to worry, hurry, but
We’d rather dither,
Give way to, let’s say, to
Comforts of the moment
In denial
And postponement.
A crisis trying to work out,
A plummet, crying, climbing,
In its paradox, to climax;
Earthquake, drought, the flood, typhoon:
No doubt,
Conditions fraught with climate –
And our ruin.
Climate Crisis 9.30.2013
Circling Round Nature; Our Times, Our Culture II;
Arlene Corwin