Save them that you hurt by hurting the world
You’ll kill your only dog because you don’t remember the sound of a bullet like him.
The sea rises
The sea consumes
The sea doesn’t give back
You’ll fear a never coming fire after you hear your cousin burnt alive and hide from the smoke you don’t inhale.
The sea rises
The sea consumes
The sea doesn’t give back
When you looked at an unfamiliar face and at unfamiliar people and watched their charred skin and face wrinkled and bent from screaming and crying didn’t you think of your own home.
Slow reaction
Slow movement
Slow to help a different home
When you looked through your eyes and saw devastation, did you help them, or did you crawl in your bed and throw plastic to the birds to eat in your sorrow?
Slow reaction
Slow movement
Slow to help a different home
When the sea rose and the sky fell didn’t you forget such long ago that you learnt of the reality. Did you forget in the following months while eating ice cream from the tub in the welcome of your home about those who lost everything they owned to people like you?
The climate moves
The climate changes
The climate takes as you took from it
Who did you hurt and why don’t you know their faces?
Copyright © Zoe Crout | Year Posted 2025
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