YOU CAN NO LONGER
THIS POEM IS DEDICATED TO MY HERO AND BEST FRIEND DEBRA W, A RARE AND BEAUTIFUL JEWEL
IT DOESN’T MATTER WHICH SIDE OF THE FENCE YOUR ON
NO POINTING FINGERS OF WHO IS RIGHT OR WRONG
A CERTAIN DEATH SENTENCE FOR THE HUMAN RACE
WHILE ARGUMENTS GO ON WITH SOME USELESS DEBATE
WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO KEEP OUR HEAD IN THE SAND
BECAUSE THE TIME THAT WE MUST ACT IS NOW AT HAND
TAKING A HARD LOOK AT OURSELVES IS WHERE WE BEGIN
BECAUSE THE WILL TO SURVIVE, COMES FROM DEEP WITHIN
THE WORLD IS GETTING HOTTER THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT
CATASTROFIC, EXTREMES OF WEATHER, DAY IN, DAY OUT
CYCLONES AND THUNDERSTORMS DUMPING FLOODING RAINS
HARDLY A DROP FOR THE DROUGHT PARTCHED RIDDEN PLAINS
INLAND RIVERS SCARCELY FLOWNG, SOME ARE RUNNING DRY
LEADING TO VAST FISH KILLS THAT BRINGS A TEAR TO THE EYE
THE POWERS THAT BE CAN NO LONGER GO HIDING THEIR HEADS
OUR POLITICANS CAN’T GO ON SHARING THE RICH MAN’’S BED
BUSHFIRES SO MASSIVE THEY CAN BE SEEN FROM SPACE THE ONCE LIVING FOREST NOW A DEAD, DESERLATE PLACE
MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPES THAT WERE ONCE A SIGHT TO BE SEEN
LIFELESS AND BLACKEND FROM WHERE DEADLY FIRES HAVE BEEN
EXPERTS TELL US, GLACIERS ARE MELTING AT AN UBELIEVABLE RATE
IN THE ALP’S THEY DISCOVERED A NEWLY FORMED MOUNTAIN LAKE
AVALANCHES, LANDSLIDES, MUDSLIDES, LEAVING LITTLE TO SURVIVE
SHATTERED FAMILIES, STOLEN DREAMS, SO MANY BROKEN LIVES
KILLER ARCTIC BLASTS BRINGING METER UPON METER OF SNOW
LEAVING THE UNLUCKY HOMELESS, WITH NO WARM PLACE TO GO
MONSOONS, TYPHOONS HURRICANS ALL VERGING ON A CATORGORY 5
QUESTION, DOES MANKIND HAVE THE ‘’WILL’’ IT WILL TAKE TO SURVIVE??
THE OCEANS ARE RISING, YOU ONLY HAVE TO ASK THE ISLAND NATION’S
THEIR HOMES, THEIR LANDS, THEIR LIVELYHOODS FACING INNUNDATION
EACH DAY THE RISING SEA RELENTLESSLY CREEPS TOWARD THEIR DOOR
NOW THE IDEALIC ISLAND LIFESTYLE DOESN’T SEEM SO IDEALIC ANYMORE
IT TAKES FOR US TO CHANGE OUR WAYS ON HOW WE THINK AND ACT
EVERYBODY HAS TO COME TO ACCEPT THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS FACT
WE CAN’T STALL ANY LONGER, WE’RE AT THE POINT OF NO RETURN
GETTING PEOPLE TO REALISE THIS, IS AT PRESENT, THE MAIN CONCERN
WE MUST FIGHT TO SAVE THE PLANET AND AS WELL THE HUMAN RACE
THE RISK IS, OUR HOME BECOMING SUCH AN INHOSPITABLE PLACE
MAKE NO MISTAKE THE TIME IS HERE WE DON’T GET A SECOND CHANCE
EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD MUST BE WILLING TO TAKE A STANCE
DRAMATIC CHANGE IS NEEDED TO GIVE PLANET A CHANCE TO REVIVE
WITHOUT IT, HUMANITY AND LIFE AS WE NOW KNOW IT, CAN’T SURVIVE
IF IT SEEMS AT TIMES LIKE OTHERS AREN’T WILLING TO DO THEIR SHARE
THAT’S NO EXCUSE TO STOP YOUR EFFORTS, THERE’S SO MUCH TO REPAIR
WHAT’S DONE IS DONE, THE TIME HAS COME TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED
WE MUST FACE THE FACT THAT WE ALL MUST ACT, IT’S TIME WE GET STARTED
NO RATIONALISING OR JUSTIFYING OF WHAT WE SHOULD OR SHOULDN’T DO
BECAUSE THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, THE PLANET IS DEPENDING ON YOU
ALL WORDS OF POETRY&RHYME WRITTEN AND OWNED BY STEVE NEW