The future is always masked in mystery
With folk unable or unwilling to see.
Many can see no further than here and now,
Yet in each country,
town and village it is known to change is taking place.
Populations growing, droughts causing land and food destroying.
Flooding chasing those who can to seek other higher lands.
Political disagreement propel nation against nation,
Blasting into obliteration cities, towns, villages
with mass evacuation?
Refugees to be passed about and robbed ripe for exploitation.
Virus running free though the means to check them is available,
But misinformation incomprehensibly delivered by some is believed.
Condemning their communities to death with choking,
gasping, fast-spreading deadly disease.
Only at death's door do they start to implore for the vaccine
they so callously ignored, now too late to receive.
As they are wrapped in their shroud
and buried with few to mourn their passing.
Is that the future we seek?
Is there a chance for change?
The time to act is now to save our planet the only one we have.
Through the United Nations,
the stark realisation has to be conveyed back
To all levels of our population,
change is required and right now.
No plans to be watered down,
they need extending if we want a chance to save the future
for our children and their children’s future.
No man or woman can leave this world with wealth
on their backs or in their hands.
We all leave as we came with nothing.
Can we not spend what wealth and effort
we have now to save this blessed land.
© 2021 Penny Wobbly of WobblingPen
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