Friday 21 August 2020

I'll just wait

 I'll just wait

A bit longer 

For it to get hotter

For a few more fights

To break out

And flights and car journeys

In the heat

For a few more elders to keel over

For a few more cars

A few more degrees

Fewer trees and

The air to become

Thick plastic

Rancid pandemic

The forest my

Lungs spits and burns.

Who lived here before we don't know

My child chokes on

The future she doesn't have

And politicians 

And people

Flip and flap

A long cry home. 

They've been talking about 

This for years and

Yes, the taking is

What they've done. 

Turn the air con up

Run more water

Stop the talking. 


I don't see butterflies

Any longer 

Nor hedgehogs nor

Hedge rows

Nor beavers

Nor bees. 

The soil is dead

Rich with nitrates

And phosphates

For the food that nourishes us

Fertilised 

Stillborn. 

The water is sick 

And flows less in 

Streams of thick sludge

And heartbreak of

Sleepless nights

Flood 

Infertile. 

I'll just wait 

A little longer 

For the masses to

Come and swarm

Upon us

Desperate for food

And water 

And life

And species. 

I'll wait, 

I'll just wait.