Bernard Barclay Poet Narrative

You Can Do Anything

I'm sixty years old 
tomorrow is not Guaranteed
if I live for another twenty 
or thirty years I'd be doing well

In thirty years 
when I die 
the world will not 
matter to Me '

I'll be gone 
no more wages
no need for food
I meet my maker 

and stand proud
saying I tried to stop wars
I tried to save your planet
I tried to help people

I'll not be ashamed
I'll have self-respect
but the people of the world 
will still be here

your children 
their children
the children of their children
will still be here

Do you as a world 
want to continue 
teaching them to fight
Do you as a world 

Want to continue 
polluting your planet
destroying your food resources
destroying plants and animals

we depend on honeybee's
to pollinate plants
destroy the bees
and you destroy your food resources

as we pump carbon 
into the atmosphere
heat increases
floods increase 

Heat, on the ocean
creates more steam
more steam creates more clouds 
more clouds create more rain

flood in one country 
fires in another 
If you put a pot fat on the range
turn on the element
 
The solid in the pot turn's 
into a liquid
perhaps increasing the heat 
by destroying the ozone layer

could soften the land 
and be responsible for 
increasing earthquakes 
and the tsunami

Granted that might be stretching
the truth we have tectonic plates    
The Earths floating crusts will always move
Tectonic Plates moving against each other

Cause Earthquakes
somethings we can change
somethings we have to accept
as part of nature

But we can change the type 
of machines we use
we can build factories 
that run on electric power

It does not matter which country
creates pollution 
the pollution goes
into everyone's atmosphere

We have one world
we are all apart of the one world
check out DNA we are all human
not aliens we are all related

We have one planet
fight bicker and destroy that planet
and your children will have no future
stand together in a war against climate change

Then perhaps you can build a better future
you can create the happiness 
you can build Disney lands all over the world
invest together and you can do anything

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