Tuesday, May 10, 2022

This is what we chose

 if they ask

you should tell them

that we could have stopped it

but we chose not to


you should tell them

we had the tools

the technology

and the time

but we chose to enjoy our comforts

a little longer

those same comforts we have now lost


and so we rake the leaves

the autumn leaves

the leaves of our history

 our poetry, our learning

we rake them all into piles

 and then we burn them

we burn them to forget

for to remember

brings too much pain


and all the leaves are burning

for the forests are drying out

and the coral reefs are turning bone white


the storm is coming

but there won't be much snow

and so the glaciers retreat

and the seas rise to drink our cities

and this is what we chose

this is what we chose