School taught us about climate change.
Jungles and forests with animals so strange,
reduced to stumps and piles of ashes.
We watch as earth's well-being crashes.
But where will the animals go?
While their homes are destroyed, ours grow.
The world is now a wasteland of the past,
a reminder of what could've but didn't last.
We don't have videos or pictures to see,
but the world was once beautiful, believe me.
The sea's rising, but more water, more life, right?
We may have eyes, but we don't have sight.
Still, I'll buy a factory.
A brand new car that's satisfactory.
Humans are lazy, why should we walk?
I'd rather drive with my friends and talk.
Glass buildings, tall and weird in shape
make people stop and stare agape.
It's really hard not to take control
when we're making money from things like coal.
Business is booming, society progressing.
We're too blind to see our climate regressing.
But we're smart, we see the situation.
We're trying to ignore that we're the causation.
When we were little, we read tales of scary creatures.
Frightening with fangs and horns and other scary features.
But looking around now, we see not fangs nor horns,
but our own scary faces crowned with thorns.
And now we see, it's just so clear,
that we're the monsters we learned the fear.
Take a stand, if you'd like.
Walk, run, maybe ride a bike.
Our trash should go where it belongs.
It's time we started righting our wrongs.
Learn and learn, don't be afraid.
And while you do that, don't be swayed
by the lavish life and tempt of wealth,
for it will harm nature's precious health.
Then spread your knowledge, it's not hard to speak.
You don't need experience and a degree to teach.
Work together, take shorter showers.
Maybe then we'll deserve this world of ours.
A/N: My teacher forced me to write this
