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
Copyright © Bernard Barclay | Year Posted 2020
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