Mother Nature is sobbing - ecocide anthology
Is as if Harold Pinter foretold this Kiwi winter
So bleak rain’s disdain as havoc does wreak
Twinned with wind it hurls with swirls spinned
Plans calendar pinned binned have we sinned
Mother Nature’s cries…weeps heaps at the lies
Pomposity of these creeps we should criticise
Ferocity of her lachrymosity leaps from the skies
Velocity of man made monstrosity will chastise
Another acolyte from the far right they baptise
Animosity of the fossil fuel fools her rule defies
Surf waves crest the rest knaves they despise
Scorch the turf so the dearth from birth will rise
Eyes on the prize girth is worth earth’s demise
There is no refuge from this deluge
From their devil may care subterfuge
As psychotic as the thugs "in Bruges"
A slippery spicy slope a dicey icy luge
Endless eddy goes down the centrifuge
Climate crushing & not blushing rouge
Each greedier leader a corporate stooge
Seedier media with the facts a scrooge
Northern hemisphere countries take turns
Flames rage for an age everything burns
Chances for change government spurns
Bigwig gig still earns while society churns
For peace we yearn but no lesson learns
Clear concerns the future is ashes in urns
History debunks entire mystery of satires
Deniers just liars building gilding empires
Tech Messiahs no dire high flier pariahs
From evangelical spires inspire the fires
Never tires of vicious avaricious desires
With hateful hobbies from lobbies it hires
Town criers as we drown in quagmires
Gerontocracy which never ever retires
Every protest pest laid to rest on pyres
Trump is still gobbing off
Sheriff’s tiff tariffs lobbing
Sleuth’s truths fobbing off
Mother Nature’s sobbing
Refugees bobbing in trough
Sighs her eyes still throbbing
With crypto cronies robbing
Hobnobbing with every toff
Reports they redact and hide
Experts who tried can’t chide
Appliance of science denied
Us all being taken for a ride
On some helter skelter slide
With no shelter in or outside
Swelter in this delta of snide
Fried by fake national pride
As the past & future collide
Know on us all have spied
Our secrets they have pried
Data for advertisers supplied
Time to choose your side
Surmise AI guys pie eyed
In Geneva should be tried
For war crimes can’t abide
Yes it is up to us to decide
To stop the slop of the tide
What term history’s applied
Call it genocide or ecocide?
Either way everything died !
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