Some poems

A spoken word poem

This was written by me and a classmate (credit to her too)

We all know the feeling of heat rising off our skin. The summer sun and its determination to cook us from the outside in.

An unrelenting force that we can not prevent from inching its way further to our brain.

The closer it gets the more the rest of our body feels hopeless

Devastation rains on each and every part of us.
Heavy rain leaving people flooded or drowned. Buried in drought or dust.

Ice caps melt, breaking into pieces,

an avalanche of destruction, slow enough that some claim not to see it.

It's predicted by 2035 the Himalayan glaciers will disappear.

And you tell me global warming isn't real?

The sea level continues to rise

Dropping homes off the edge of the earth, sinking cities under water

Leaving people stranded, stuck.

And still most people tell them, they just must be out of luck.

Warmth radiates down as the temperature rises,

Boiling the Earth until we forget what it even feels like to be cold.

You may like warmer weather, but it does more to affect you than sunnier beach days.

Heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, and Septembers that feel more like June

People lose their homes.

Animals lose their habitats, and migrating animals can't keep up.

A dangerous choice between leaving the warmth too early, and too late

Butterflies that don't even live long enough to recognize their fate

Bees out of synch with the flowering of plants and trees

Not understanding the changes they simply cannot perceive

Less food produced to cycle through the food chain.

Growing seasons extended and more water needed,

but how long can you stare at the empty sky begging it to rain?

As these extreme temperatures continue, animals migrate to the poles in order to adapt.

One small step ahead of complete extinction, wiped off the map.

A species you'll never even know about, gone before they had their shot

All they can do now is live until their chances begin to rot

You may not notice the changing weather, but soon it will become hard to ignore

The world itself is melting, slowly losing everything it came to adore.

Global warming is an approaching catastrophe we can stop if we try.

If we preserve our resources our and water, it can help our planet heal.

LED lights, public transportation, shorter showers are ways to soothe our planet's cry.

The Earth is hurting and it's up to us to be the ones to fix how she feels