Tipping Point

Photo by Danny Schleicher on Unsplash

We’ve reached a tipping point —

As the Arctic melts and Amazonia burns —

Acid rain strips the trees —

Plastic fantastic — two billion tons of indestructible shit –

A deathly cocktail of chemicals

Billowing out of chemical factories across the globe

Billowing out tons of pestilential fug:

Diesel passing straight into the lungs and blood of toddlers

As parents push their loved ones down the road.

We’ll need more than a red wheel barrow to shift this lot

We’ll need to live a simpler, better life with fewer things

To clutter up our minds, pollute our environment, deaden our souls

We are left bereft — like soldiers floundering in fire or lime —

We need to learn in time, Native Americans said:

‘we are the land, the land is sacred,

For it is the dust and blood of our ancestors.’