The End of Tuvalu
To the bottom of the ocean,
where the fish can only dream,
to the bottom of the ocean,
to build our graves-
among the sea.
Tuvalu, Tuvalu-
our home and friend,
our birth place-
and end;
we love you.
To the bottom of the ocean,
clutching sand with grasping nails,
to the bottom of the ocean,
our pleas for help-
have sadly failed.
Tuvalu, Tuvalu-
our home and friend,
our birth place-
and end;
we love you.
To the bottom of the ocean,
to the bottom of the coral reef,
where our homes have been neglected-
to rot in silence beneath the sea.
Please don't forget us.
- Tuvalu is an island nation that is sinking to the bottom of the ocean due to rising sea
levels caused by climate change.
To those of you who still feel that global pollution isn't a problem, you have been taken
in by gas company propaganda. People who would sell their own mother to slavery to protect
their profits, much less allow a whole race of people to sink to their deaths.
If you still think that man made global warming is a lie then you have to fly to Tuvalu
and stand in the waist high water and tell the Tuvalu people why you think they should die.
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