This Climate Change
This Climate Change
By Roy Merritt
Winter’s shroud arrives earlier each year
Mountains of beauty to inspire and revere
Beauty yes, but wanton, exceedingly cruel
A beautiful veil, pale, and deceiving the fool
Its voice whispers and howls, frigid its breath
Encroaching upon all to some bringing death
Ever colder it be ever menacing its face
Ever astounding to us who dwell in this place
And old timers and others with memories of when
Are challenged to remember it ever being like then
How can it be says the fool expressing but scorn
How can it be the globe increasingly warm
How can it be different from long ago in the past
How can it be this and leave us aghast
Winter is often a time of dread and despair
But eventually moves on as we make to repair
Ah, but when considering so confounding a thing
Time soars to summer having forgotten the spring
And summer you know not thoughtful or kind
As it torments with heat as the sun doth shine
Days pass on causing distress much pain
The sun boils down no clouds bring rain
The drought overwhelms causing concern
For we know there be much kindling and easy to burn
And those among us the sensible and wise
Know something is amiss in time realized
We must do something take heed and converse
Arrive at some conclusion this condition reverse
We must rebuke deniers call them deranged
Who dare say it false this climate change
Is avarice such that it would blind you to truth
So merciless and potent to doom your own youth
To make their future on such an earth
An existence void of comfort and little of worth
If so I must tell you I find it quite strange
That you dare say it false this climate change
And know this for certain when such is their pain
Forever their lips will be cursing your name
No monuments to you will they ever arrange
For your insistent denial of climate change
Your legacy of infamy will never unwind
Your names be cursed forever in time
They will assail you and say you deranged
For saying it was false this climate change
Copyright © Roy Merritt | Year Posted 2016
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