POETRY JAM - IMPOSSIBILITY

“If we’re destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there’s got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.” - Ellen DeGeneres

Poetry Jam this week has enjoined participants to think about thing impossible and write a poem about it. Here is my contribution in response to this:

The Impossible

The world is ageing fast

And in its death vision sees

With rheumy, presbyopic eyes,

Its own end in oceans of hellish fire, 

Rain of lambent ash, and rivers of molten metal.

People have hardened hearts

And robbed spirits, hollow souls;

Humanity overcome by brute savagery,

As our basest cannibalistic tendencies

Cause us to tear apart with nails and devour each other’s flesh.

Nature was stunned, killed long ago:

No green leaf budding, flowers but a distant memory;

No animal left to roam the burning deserts;

No bird to fly in poisoned air, no insect to burrow in roasted earth;

No shelter, no safe haven, no refuge left.

And yet, as long as there is one amongst us

With a vision, with a deep well of hope,

With strong belief and endless love,

We shall achieve what seems well nigh impossible:

This bluish-white sphere spinning endlessly in space,

This our only home, to save, and our dying world to revivify…