May Flowers
I’m wet with color
Blooming brings
After April showers we’re
Showered in May petalled wings
But what’s happening to May flowers
As April showers are changing?
How does our old saying go
WIth climate conditions rearranging?
With our human-driven warming setting
What used to be normal is abnormal
With more changing, weathering, and wetting
Because what they advertised as moral is amoral.
Flowers must also try surviving human emissions
Adapting to extreme temps, breeding seasons, and UV
Changing colors, losing species, and home locations
All as human systems of mass ag industrialize floral beauty
Yet still April’s climate action may bring a better climate
But not if we let April’s cowards bring more Mays devoured
And more violet eyes staring from the dark woods silent
Instead may April’s power make May ours, empowered.