Below The Waste Line.

Hurricanes batter the Caribbean

Tear through Florida

Like a thresher

Earthquakes hit Mexico

Burying whole towns

The sub-continental monsoons 

Drown thousands

In Pakistan and India

And when the wind dies down

The tides recede

All the debris

Gets bulldozed into a hole

So we can build again

Safe in the knowledge

This was a 1 in 100 year event

Only now it happens every 10 years

And soon every year

So we dig more holes in which to bury

Any dreams of a stable future

Where crops can be grown

Families raised

Lives lived

Hope realised

All of it bulldozed again

Into holes in the ground

And one has to ask

Where do the holes full of waste end

And the real living earth begin

As the planet warms

And storms gather strength

Our own government pinning it hopes

On coal, again

We must ask how much

Political strength is left

To avoid a global catastrophe

We could wipe ourselves out

Through sheer stupidity

We have tried it before

And come close

I am wondering what

It will take for those in power

To realise they too

Will lose that which they love most

© Shaun Green 2017