Dear everyone ever,
to everyone I've ever (and never) loved
I write endeavoring to save our world
Now is the time for us to preserve a safe climate
Why not do everything it takes, even rhyme it?
With basically everywhere experiencing ever more pollution
Our fossil fueled-warming has only human attribution
Overloading our planet tipping towards crises cascade,
Until each next step threads into the pin of a grenade.
So now do you see? How we’re in this together
But also how we could be? Now more than ever
How we can turn the tables on all our old ways toxic
And turn away from the fossilized fools who got us sick
To transform the greed and fear at our root
Into a compassionate collective conscious pursuit
Because change is coming whichever way we choose
We can either go with the flow or by the flow lose
By heatwave, by wildfire, cyclone, or glacial melt to sea rise
Our choices are NOT a scale from despair to demise
We can choose various vectors, no need to conflate
Scale beyond continuums of adapt and mitigate
Fortify in number in strength in heart ever more
Until we are the storm we’ve been waiting for
So since everything we now do matters - let’s do everything
Begin weaving textiles from tatters -- start by stitching
Interconnect our tapestry, energize new transmission lines
Weave windmills and solar cells in an electric tangle of vines
Every carbon lifeform and emission, every year and choice matters
Every action and bit of warming, every person impacted together
Everywhere and thing as we know it is at stake, so let’s center justice
With only everyone and our every ancestor and descendant on us for this
Just let those across time be your guiding light
Feel the folks in your heart who inspire you to fight
To the random awesome activist mom on Twitter
To the misled, the confused, to the casual emitter
To those who’ve come before us; those who did inform us
To those who model pathways, those acting without delays
To you, to the kids of tomorrow who’ll despise us moreover
To the kids of today, everyone for whom my heart breaks over
Consider this your open invitation (no RSVP)
To a celebration of our progressive potentiality
You’re invited: to a world turning on different values
Inclusive, sustainable, and regenerative too
Choose to join together and reverse our free fall
And with your help we will dare to save it all
Whoever your are and whoever you could be
Whether near or far - you’re all dearest to me
With a warming heart in a warming world
Each dawn will draw our community onward
Sincerely, Dearly
Adam Powers
PS: act now with no regrets
For this is it: our zero hour.
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