Don't Dare Ask

We had no hand in this rape of nature Yet we will bear its full weight and measure Can climate be sentenced to certain doom Is there time to resolve its gruesome gloom Don't dare ask us to deny climate change We've dug a hole that we can't get out of At the "climate mercy" from high above Self-interest trumps the collective good Tell the top players to do now what they should Don't dare ask us to think or act short-term Our little spades try digging us all out As designer-suit dudes plow dirt round about We dutifully sift through our own trash So we make these moguls even more cash Don't dare ask us to bow to huge profits Those prominent peers, posers, pols and priests They had their fair say and done their least Fighting useless battles over oil sites While we differ on clear-cut human rights Don't dare ask us to reject world order Elites hold the power and that is true Puny results from what we folks can do As much as we'd like to see it all stop To fix this we must begin at the top Don't dare ask us to back broken brokers Seeing in stores all that shiny plastic Vast plastic globs float in the Pacific We drive plastic cars that are half the weight With which green fuel is still under debate Don't dare ask us to save our frail planet Each ecosystem is interconnected Rising like tides that are all effected Now fires and storms rage behind a curtain Weather is volatile and uncertain Don't dare ask us to endanger species Air, lands, waters hope for a better day Some of earth's environs have lost their way Without half our insects we must move on The planet's trees are forever half gone Don't dare ask us to fix this mega mess Couplet 40 Lines 337 Words