Six Years Left
Six Years Left I hear the clock ticking Louder and louder every day “We have very little time,” it ticks “So little time,” it does not stop 24 years 12 years 6 years Six years before the planet Is irreparably changed Six years to stop The water from rising The fires from spreading The ice from melting We have six years And what do we do? We go to work We watch TV We make promises But we do nothing We turn the music up We go shopping for purses We drive our cars And focus on our money When the floods come Will we float on our money? Will we breathe it in Like the oxygen we had Before we decimated the forests? Like the fresh sweet tonic That was all of ours Before we injected it with fossil fuel How will the money feel in our lungs? Full or regret? Bitter, sad, desperate Dirty? Six years before sea levels rise And wipe out entire countries Six years before our soil and water Is contaminated with salt We have six years And what do we do? We do nothing When the...