A Different World
the world has
reached its' tipping point we are told
it is the beginning of the 6th extinction
it is the beginning of the 6th extinction
the people of the
valley talk among themselves shake their heads
in silence look to
the sky count the days look for signs
this day seems like
the day before we are told
we will run out of water
we will run out of water
everything will be
difficult there will be nowhere for the people to take refuge
the beginning of the
end has begun questions hang in the air
the world will be different we are told this has
happened before …
July 5, 2015
14 comments:
The world has certainly gone through several dramatic changes that ultimately changed hte way life was lived. I wonder if people are not looking forward to it, you know. We talk about it, predict it. Think Y2K, 2012. Of course they did not, but none the less, sold books and got people worried. I wonder. It will happen soon enough, but probably when no one is looking.
Hopefully, not again but it may take that for people to care for the Earth again.
Great write.
This reminds me of a movie I just watched (Tomorrowland). The question is.....how do we stop it?
We must strive to put an end to all the troubles that have come along our way and protect Earth in whatever way that we can! Well penned.
Lots of love,
Sanaa
I feel this poem especially, Annell. Half of western Canada is burning. Our forests caught fire last night. I awoke this morning to a yellow sky, a silent valley, the birds were silent, uncertain it was morning. I am saddened to my soul at what is happening across the planet. Your words are true. It has begun, in our lifetime. I studied all about it 35 years ago - our teacher explained everything that would happen, said things were already in place that would lead to it happening........people thought him mad back then. The only thing he got wrong is he thought it would happen sooner than it did. The planet gave us a chance to change the outcome. The governments of the world did not take it.
I had not heard that this is the beginnng of the 6th extinction. With all the changes in this world, most man made, it would not surprise me.
The world or maybe just humanity.. for sure life will be very different soon.. I still have hope, because we do understand what is happening.. there should be a possibility to change.
Yes it has happened before. What stories the dinosaurs could tell us. Yet still we would learn nothing from them as we are quite deaf and blind.
Agreed it has happened before...life will become extinct and it is our own fault....it is also told that it is a time of great enlightenment for those who are tuned in to it.
Toughtful and thought provoking, my friend. I am saddened by what we are doing to our home and wonder at those who ignore all the signs,
Elizabeth
This has an ominous feel to it. Well done!
your poem takes me to the Jurassic age when the dinosaurs vanished...may be now it's our time...the uncanny note in the lines touch so deeply....
Contrasting the apathy and panic people feel about this great change was well done.
Hope something changes and the wrath of the earth is not incurred...
Leo @ I Rhyme Without Reason
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