Another Wasteland

With a nod in the title to T.S. Eliot's Wasteland and of course The Hollow Men, this poem looks at climate change, our part in it, and asks if we have in fact passed the point of no return.

Another Wasteland

This is another wasteland, an ending
As we reach nature’s tipping point
But is it now past, or just pending?
As the Earth is so far out of joint

German floods, destructive water
Cars, walls, houses: all swept away
People caught in nature’s slaughter
Mankind’s hubris has such feet of clay

Greek fire: suffocating, forests blaze
Temperatures soar, and heat deaths
Trapped by nature’s complex maze
Gasping for air, struggling breaths

This is a warning, of things to come
Like the incessant beating of a drum