How can you go on with your typical day
When so much we need to survive is at stake?

How can you live on, and simply kill time
When everything’s threatened and we’ve crossed the line?

I find it so hard to simply exist
And know what I know—we cannot just subsist.

Between all Earth’s creatures and those we have claimed
There’s too much of us and, yes, we’re to blame

For all the destruction we’ve wrought on the Earth.
We cannot continue. We humans aren’t worth

Causing extinctions so massive, I fear
Life may not rebound—not at all, so severe

Is the damage we’ve done and are doing at rates
Ne’er before seen and it will not abate

E’en if we clean up our act and stop tainting
The air that we breathe and the water we bathe in,

The seas will keep warming and rising for years
Our islands will vanish—our coasts disappear.

No hope and no future—our children will grow
To become adults in the Hell we’ve bestown

Upon them by letting the greedy make rules
That govern the rest of us—Years of misrule.

So though we all care and they definitely don’t
They won’t let us fix things and they, themselves, won’t.