Earth Day 2020
Our only Home has given plenty
Sustained all throughout
All Our existence
Is She now about to
Give up Her persistence
We must hope that
Is not the case
If We want to save
Our only place
The will sustain life
As it’s always been known
We must change Our ways
Science has clearly shown
We’d like to believe
That this Coronavirus
Will not deceive
And will not mire Us
But is this broad sweeping pandemic
Really something that’s now endemic
Or, has it really always been
And We’ve been to blind to have seen
Well I’ll answer with
An unequivocal no
As I will choose
Optimism so
As to allow Me
A future tense
I believe We will change
I’m not on the fence
Surely it will take a
Great ability for seeing
What we Humans
Will put into being
Future oriented
To save Our ship
Not let Earth’s life signs
Further slip
To a point where
It’s beyond the curve
Where flattening and flatlined
Will no longer serve
To continue maintaining
A place for Earthlings
That is life sustaining
Thomas Hartigan 22 April, 2020