Above a Stream

2 per cent either way is all it takes
this fragile world envelope to betray
change your ways humans please for all our sakes
     So our children's children can hope to play

     swinging above a stream
     games and fun in a team
     an endless blue of dream

                            OR - shattered by
        that dreadful cry
          comes time to die

Will it be, shaken loose by fearsome quakes?
A whisper of bombs in the skies today?
That last atmosphere boil from laser beam?

                            Too late to fly.

Written 15 June 2018 for Contest: The Puzzle of my Rhyme
Sponsored by Broken Wings
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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