Life Changing Times

Part Three

Path Toward Tomorrow

Lofty mountain tops,

Your unparalleled vistas

Embody my soul,

And like a lost child come home,

I yearn your peaceful bosom

….

Within summer woods,

The shy brook trickles along,

Patiently awaits

Soaking rains for renewed strength

To babble to nearby trees

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Run sacred river

Run wild and ever be free,

If you could just run

Much faster and far enough

To escape calamity

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Below still pictures,

Woeful captions tell the tales

Of fish existed,

Before the factory ships

And pollution took their toll

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Prodigious glaciers

Elegant and heart-stirring

To countless tourists,

Including the betrayers

Who neglect global warming

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Close your eyes children

And let your mind imagine

Vast thick green forests

Filled with exotic wildlife

Before they were stripped away

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Picturesque daydreams

Of velvety green meadows,

Summon memories

Of ticklish barefoot gambols,

And blitheful days of youth

….

Newspaper headlines,

Earth’s cessation imminent,

Resources bankrupt,

Transgressors in denial,

Money muted and useless

 

  

Chelle Munroe©

August 19, 2014