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Big Job

Big Job 

There's a big job breaking out
Time for smelling salts and focus
There is no magic wand this time
No top-hat hocus pocus 

Time to wheel out heavy gear
Flex our muscles and get busy 
Pick ourselves a loyal team
With dreams so high they're dizzy 

There's a big job breaking out
And it's clear we need to fix this
Sticking plasters just won't do
For this world defining crisis 

Labourers to garden, 
Experts in their field
Anyone who cares enough
To bring this crop to yield 

Shoulder to the grindstone
Knuckles cracked and ready
Wrestle with the challenges
And climb to heights so heady 

Engineers and carpenters 
Housewives,  teachers, leaders
No time to waste. No shirking off.
Ask everyone to heed us 

There's a big job breaking out
Blue lights are flashing by 
Too much plastic in the ocean
No more ozone in the sky..

We need healers for creation
For neglecting all our duty
The reflection may be ugly
So it's time to bring back beauty 


Jinjagoliath
10th February 2021
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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Reilly Avatar
December 25, 2022 at 2:46 PM
Thank you .. Leadership poetry ..
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