BLCD[1] COE[2] Rock

                                    This world in on FIRE
                                    Our home is burning up
                                    While we procrastinate
                                    Reaching for another cup

                                    Of coffee, cappuccino
                                    Or yerba mate tea
                                    Worried and brokenhearted
                                    Unable to see

                                    What it is that we can do
                                    To stop the further damage
                                    To get us moving forward
                                    Is more than we can manage

                                    From the final precipice
                                    Of 2.0 global warming
                                    Knowing that at 1.5
                                    Already some are burning

                                    Underwater, out of land
                                    Homes gone forever
                                    Cultures to be known and loved
                                    By our children—never

                                    What was once our fertile lands
                                    Now turned into desert
                                    Gross pollution of bounteous lakes
                                    We must find our effort

                                    Inertia, numbness, and inaction
                                    Caused by fear and pain
                                    Through no fault of our own
                                    Our early lives sustained

                                    What was once our growing season
                                    Now lies still as dust
                                    The rains they say will not come
                                    And yet we know we must

                                    Feed our children and our elders
                                    Find a way to live
                                    In a world that does not respond
                                    A world that does not give

                                    A damn about the water
                                    That laps across our shores
                                    With wind that’s pushed and slammed
                                    By tsunami-powered force

                                    Our people die beneath the mud
                                    That slides down off the hills
                                    Because the trees that held it fast
                                    Were sold to fill the tills

                                    Of the corporate giants of the Western world
                                    Fossil fuel and big pharma
                                    The billionaires and the zillionaires
                                    Want to keep us in denial

                                    That 60 minutes of gas-powered mowing
                                    Equals 3,000 miles of emissions
                                    To keep fossil-fuel-powered cars going
                                    They fill the airwaves with fiction

                                    That climate change is just a hoax
                                    They dismiss climate science
                                    They leave us to repair this earth
                                    To on each other find reliance

                                    Come on sisters, come on brothers
                                    This world is our world too
                                    Ensuring a future for all of us
                                    Is something we can do

                                    Come on sisters, come on brothers
                                    This world is our world too
                                    Ensuring a future for all of us
                                    Is something we can do

                                    Come on sisters, come on brothers
                                    This world is our world too
                                    Ensuring a future for all of us
                                    Is something we can do

Barbara Love

International Liberation Reference
Person for African Heritage People

Amherst, Massachusetts, USA


[1] Black Liberation and Community Development

[2] Care of the Environment


Last modified: 2019-10-18 05:45:58+00