then whose Earth and who decides
rated S for sad

1

cold or hot
the future is
uncertain
well
of course
it is
there might be winter forever
after cloud cover ironically
from heat should shield
us
tragically
from the sun

or we could heat
so fast
a melting Earth
with
torching skies might be
all
there is

it’s the unnatural future
of concern
we cannot escape or
even
evade
       not really

it’s the planet
after all
the one we have affected
are
changing now

the profiteers believing there is more
to eke out while
the Earth
is
held together

more
and much more
and
a little more

before things crack for good
and then
things crack for good

2

leave the Earth go
a billion years
or so
leaving time to build
allowing time
to heal

the Earth will crack eventually
on its own
in
relation to a dying sun
all that we’re doing
so adversely
here
happen
naturally and by then we will
be ready
we’ll be somewhere else
by
then
happy to be there
too

as we can imagine if we cooperate
with the planet
now
rather than take
a few make money
leaving the consequences to
the children

unmindlessly

a consciousness to let the world
die
here and now
with
the suddenness of
a generation against Earth’s
own ages

our children
or
maybe their own
maybe
left with hard gold
to chew

c l couch


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