This Is A Climate Protest

Photo Courtesy: UNHCR

That used to be a forest

Before carbon-emitting madness

Picked it clean

And left a wilderness

Now what this is

Is how the climate protests

This is a crisis

Made of human devices

Dystopia of mad egos rises

Quicker than the eye sees

Seeds of Isis

Concocting compromises

As nature springs surprises

They're indulging vain enterprises

This is a human crisis

Vampire-induced vices

Spitting venom, inflating prices

Riding us like Ulysses

This is a refugee crisis

And displacement rises

In disproportionate sizes

In places where defects

Of climate is heightened

What this reflects

Is tightened

Bottlenecks of communities

Wilting in the heat than majorities

And the minorities

Within the minorities

Are primarily refugees

Whose patience has been tested

To brazen effigies

This is a climate protest

To initiate a climate reset

Turn back the impending doom

Bring back the April bloom

Cause after all that's been said

Life's the greatest asset

This is a climate protest.

Akpan