This is proving harder than it looks!

I wrote a poem last night. It's a bit crap but it came to me in the night after reading about the terrible earthquake in Morocco. Those poor people.


When I was a child
environmental disasters happened
once in a blue moon

they were almost happening on a different planet
faraway places
places we had to look up in an atlas

But now they are here, closer, on our A-Z

If you believe in Gods
then we ARE being punished
and if you don't, sadly the same rules apply

Mother Earth is angry, rightfully so.
She warned us decades ago
And not enough people listened

'There's nothing to see here. Move on.'

There WAS a girl who went on strike from school
to make the world see
she was belittled - told she was ugly, weird

Her parents were monsters, manipulating her
It was child abuse, she shouldn't be missing school
because education is SO important

But SHE was educating US

And she was right
she was right
about everything

And what is the point of the crumbling schools
if the whole world is falling apart?