Life As We Know It Is Dead

Have hope when it seems hopeless, because there is no other choice.

Even though the forests are burning,

And the oceans are burning,

And the cities are flooding;

The people are dying

Alongside the white rhinos

And the honey bees,

And the insects

And the trees.

All the seen unseens that we collectively take for granted frequently.

Amidst those massive, daily, hourly losses,

It's most natural to freeze.

But we live in an unnatural world.

We've lived through seeing life as we know it get turned on its head.

And now, life as we've known it is dead.

And there will be no funeral.

It won't be broadcast or televised,

Or reposted across your newsfeed.

Partly 'cos it's easier to live in denial.

Partly 'cos there's still money to be made.

Until the ones making it realize

A million dollars on an empty planet isn't worth anything.

But the rest of us cannot wait for the materially rich to wake

When every day that passes is a day too late.

It's time to embrace the change

That isn't coming, but already here.

For we with the power to see, have the power to steer.

Our collective responsibility:

To rebuke apathy.

Apathy will not cleanse our waters of microplastics.

Neither prevent pipelines

Nor create lifelines.

Not stay the bullets of a toxic society.

The biggest threat to apathy?

Hope.

Where there is hope, there is love;

When there is love, life overcomes.

Remember.

Corporations are lifeless, they are not human.

They have no feelings or families or souls.

Corporations are lifeless, which means they cannot function on their own.

Humans run them.

Humans with feelings and families and souls.

Perhaps detached.

Perhaps hurt.

The truth about this world of suffering

Is collectively, we keep it alive.

And collectively, we can kill it to keep each other alive instead.