Selfish

 

As your last hair fades to gray,

The last fish in the sea will swim it’s final mile

As you run out of arthritis pills for the last time,

The lungs of the planet will fail

When you take your last breath

Someone will take their first breath of air

Now tell me, Is it fair?

To take this all for yourself

And leave them with none?

 

Warming love

 

The alarm goes off and so the sun rises

She wraps her warm arms around me

I take the warmth and it soaks inside me

Does she know that with each embrace I grow warmer?

That her love is trapped in my clouds?

Does she know? Or can she simply not help it

Because for millions,

Billions of years, this has been her routine

She has never been confronted before

Maybe she can’t change,

But someone needs to.

 

Waiting on change

 

The thing about change is she waits until action is taken

She can’t be on her own

She doesn’t do things first

Or even second

Change is a follower, we can’t keep waiting on her to make a move

We are in a chess game and no one knows who’s going to start.

Take action and move a pawn.

 

4,543,000,000 years

 

When the earth turns another year older

She will still be young

With eyes of ocean blue

She is beautiful

She once was strong

But her lungs are failing

And her eyes are turning as black as oil

Her smile is turning to a frown as her pores are dug into by the people she calls her children

Her cool ora is melting as excuses are made

At this rate, she will die before long before her time

We can’t just stand here and pretend she’s not withering

Take a stand.

What are you waiting for.