BLCD[1] COE[2] Rock
This world in on FIRE
Our home is burning up
While we procrastinate
Reaching for another cup
Of coffee, cappuccino
Or yerba mate tea
Worried and brokenhearted
Unable to see
What it is that we can do
To stop the further damage
To get us moving forward
Is more than we can manage
From the final precipice
Of 2.0 global warming
Knowing that at 1.5
Already some are burning
Underwater, out of land
Homes gone forever
Cultures to be known and loved
By our children—never
What was once our fertile lands
Now turned into desert
Gross pollution of bounteous lakes
We must find our effort
Inertia, numbness, and inaction
Caused by fear and pain
Through no fault of our own
Our early lives sustained
What was once our growing season
Now lies still as dust
The rains they say will not come
And yet we know we must
Feed our children and our elders
Find a way to live
In a world that does not respond
A world that does not give
A damn about the water
That laps across our shores
With wind that’s pushed and slammed
By tsunami-powered force
Our people die beneath the mud
That slides down off the hills
Because the trees that held it fast
Were sold to fill the tills
Of the corporate giants of the Western world
Fossil fuel and big pharma
The billionaires and the zillionaires
Want to keep us in denial
That 60 minutes of gas-powered mowing
Equals 3,000 miles of emissions
To keep fossil-fuel-powered cars going
They fill the airwaves with fiction
That climate change is just a hoax
They dismiss climate science
They leave us to repair this earth
To on each other find reliance
Come on sisters, come on brothers
This world is our world too
Ensuring a future for all of us
Is something we can do
Come on sisters, come on brothers
This world is our world too
Ensuring a future for all of us
Is something we can do
Come on sisters, come on brothers
This world is our world too
Ensuring a future for all of us
Is something we can do
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
[1] Black Liberation and Community Development
[2] Care of the Environment