A wordle, using
world, play, plan, divided, untethered, clothes, hurt, travellers, fresh, future, speak, text.
Terra Nullius
Can the world, will the world, survive untethered greed?
How will constant growth play out
If we don’t heed the warnings plainly given?
How much can we hurt the planet and still be forgiven?
How do you plan a survival package if the people are divided
Into rival tribes on just about everything?
Freshly scented politicians in their smart new clothes
Tell us it will be just fine, that our future is rosy.
But here is the subtext:
Re-elect us, we don’t care,
We won’t be there.
What if time travellers were really possible?
But no-one has come back to speak to us
Because there is no-one there in the future to return?
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© 2021 J Cosmo Newbery
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Ouch.
ReplyDeletePertinent questions, and I fear the answers.