Red Sky at Morning
(today is World Environment Day)

We acknowledge
That we breathe
And
Do we breathe

That there is water we may treat
To drink
Because most of it’s unsafe

We could catalogue
The plant and animal
Species
We will have killed
Today
In the name of consumer
Consumption and
Development

And how large is the ozone layer
It’s been decades of
Awareness
And it could be better
The layer
Our awareness

How blue the sky
And shall we keep its blueness
Or trade
The blue of Earth for
Scarlet
Mars
Once we have finished
Here
And with what is left
Go there

C L Couch


Photo by Ryan Arnst on Unsplash