I've mentioned that I enjoy writing, as much as making sketches and paintings, and in this time of pandemic I've turned to writing to help to pass the time until "we can all get together again."
The other day I was watching a program, or perhaps I was reading a news item, doesn't matter, and the author was going on about our world about to reach the "tipping point" a point of no return regarding global warming. Well, sorry to say, that point has come and gone. We're now faced with adaptation as there's no way that we're stopping the dominoes from falling. I keep thinking of the sci-fi movie, "Blade Runner", and can see the future of Earth in a couple of decades.
Far fetched thinking? Perhaps. but with no one seeming to listen, no one (really) willing to change their wasteful habits......TIPPING POINT
Some time ago,
we overstepped the reason
for our being,
abandoned Nature,
took a stand, and decided
to rob the land.
The Laws of Nature
a force needed, that
provided balance to a world
created from fire and dust
has become undone, and
like dominoes in a row,
one by one,
we watched them fall,
until wth speed
we’ve lost control.
The world is now ablaze
smoke from wildfires spread their haze,
storms unparalleled wreak havoc,
people are becoming crazed
fearful that their world,
their sense of being, as
their very worth,
becomes undone.
Of course, it’s true,
no sense thinking otherwise,
the tipping point near,
some would think,
when truth be known,
that point was reached
long,
long ago.
It’s quite amazing,
some would say,
how quickly things went astray, but again,
truth be known, things went south
long,
long ago.
We told you so, but
you wouldn’t listen,
ignored our pleas
to see the signs.
Like Aesop’s Fable,
the “Ant and the Grasshopper”,
the world looked away, and
fiddled and played,
while all around London Bridge,
the world we know,
was falling down.
Now with winter on our heels
we look to Nature to save the day, and
make all the bad things go away, but
Nature has long since given up,
deciding to let the dominoes fall….
where they may.
The tipping point has come and gone,
the Pied Piper plays his song, and
despite skies ablaze the people
fail to pay their dues, and
through the haze,
senselessly,
they continue
to march along.
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http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/pdfs/aesop/the_ant_and_the_grasshopper.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd4DexKGhHw
https://allthatsinteresting.com/london-bridge-is-falling-down
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