#1115 - time is running out

 

20.i.23

1115

4.20

time is running out

 

for creatures such as

we all are

 

things got away

should have thought before

 

now everywhere

we need to turn it around

 

too many of us

too few trees

 

should leave some

where they were

 

time to call the tipping point

change our ways

 

come to the place

 

for each and every

soon all up

 

time is running out for hope

 

for river in the runoff

tomorrow – who’s extinct?

 

must we swim against our own muck?

suck down all the smoke?

 

we are the unnatural disaster

 

time is running out for all that’s green and grows

for everyone in branches  

 

for flower, grass

fish yet to name

 

for atmosphere

our weather

 

it’s a two legged mess

down to greed

to ease

 

time is running out

to stop the plastic tide

to tell the truth we need

 

to trip the switch

to make okay

to work out what to do

 

I’ll tell you

 

chain yourself to the future

maybe there’ll be one then

 

we must take to the streets

disrupt

 

time is running out

for trust

 

for one who climbs

some sunk

one slinks

 

for under over all

 

time is running out

to trick fools from their folly

 

and back to the garden

 

time is running out for the bush

 

must say what must be said

to wake the sleepers now

 

to sound the alarm

 

time is running out

to do what we must do to make

this just our one world safe

 

there isn’t another

 

come creatures

heed if you can hear

 

time is running out

to free ourselves of all belongings

so we may belong

 

if we say ‘already too late’

then it will be

 

but time is running out