The greasy oil barons and the greedy gas companies making dirty electricity that’s priced beyond reach. Like a sucking leech on the poor: they drain them of their last coins to maintain hidden pots of gold, and like beady eyed predators they watch and grin then spend their ill gained lolly on another new sin.
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What price a Child’s Life?
The soft skin dries, amongst new Mum sighs, and Dad is keen to play his role and so the child grows their soul. ====== The sibilant tweeting of birds in the garden flow around them, sleeping without fear of men, til sound becomes words and their mind can think, and so they learn that their… Continue reading What price a Child’s Life?
Cold Hearts
They know it is wrong, the science is clear, but prefer high profile jobs to turning the tide? They hang on their hearts, the voices of children, but hungry oil and coal eats its way into their homes, hopes, failed harvests and he denies with sown seeds of power. So, head’s together they ignore truth… Continue reading Cold Hearts
The Earth left to Governments
The moon stared through the dust at the landscape, barely limming rooftops and rare trees with her light, and down in the streets no one moves as the dark oppression of climate collapse knocks on their doors. —– Hiding behind a front door a child peeps through the unsealed letter box, and smells the dust… Continue reading The Earth left to Governments