'Coal,' Said The PM
Location
Coal
The PM said
Is how we in Australia run.
How we make money
Get on our feet.
Coal
Said the PM
Is what we need.
But Mr PM
What about the day
When you wake up
And they tell you it's over.
Mr PM
One day you will get out of bed
And turn on the television
And Australia will be out.
Out of coal.
And that day
The day when the land beneath our feet is bare
When the mines have been searched countless times
And the forests are a pit of
Tree trunks
Leaves
Debris
And no coal.
That will be the day
That you get out of bed
And you say
Australia
We're out.
And you will say
Australia
It's over.
The money is over
The economy is over
The coal is over.
And Mr PM
The forests will have been dug up in search of the very last coal.
And Mr PM
You're right.
It will be over.
The thing that ran us
The thing that we ran for
Will be over.
And we'll slow
To a jog
And then a walk.
And before you know it,
Mr PM
We'll be crawling
Because our feet are too blistered to stand anymore.
And then
We'll be stopped
Because the dug up land
Beneath our knees
Bare of coal
And bare of life
Will make our knee caps bleed.
So Mr PM
Maybe we do run on coal.
Mr PM
Maybe we will be walking
Crawling
Limp
Without it.
But Mr PM
You can change that.
While we are still on our feet
And beneath the forests are lands of fuel
Mr PM
Find us a solution
A replacement
So that when the day comes
That we stop running
That the forests are gone
That the economy is drowning
And we are searching on our hands and knees for the sun
You can provide the sun
So that we
Can run
Will run
Are running.
Coal might fuel the world
But Mr PM
It will not fuel Australia.
NOTE: I am not against the former PM of Australia, I promise! This is not in any way political, just something that I felt inclined to write about.