Fire Out, Please

 

Australia’s dying

How are the first people there?

The second people are in dire need

Those who survive the danger

Needing something of what

Was brought with them

And then called home

 

One prison colony is

Now another

No time for blame

This is a time for life

For rescue, healing, then rebuilding

New air is needed

Everywhere except the fire

That, God willing, must be bereft

Of oxygen to die

The irony of living

Losing all the green sources for

The birth of breath

For people

 

The animals who might reinhabit

Give birth again

A billion

Having been killed so far

 

C L Couch

 

 

Photo by Alfred Kenneally on Unsplash

 

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