In My Own Life-Time

In my own lifetime I won't live for to see A World that's free of war and poverty There will be the haves and have nots and us against they Long after my remains will have gone to decay. With climate change widespread and hunger and disease And millions if not billions of environmental refugees Going by what experts have written and what experts have said For all life forms many tough decades ahead. Evidence of climate change is now Worldwide on every shore It has been happening now for three decades or more The smell of pollution is blowing in the wind And the greatest polluters of course human-kind. In a World where conflict and famine is rife The struggle of survival is their greatest battle in life And now with climate change we have to contend To Mother Earth we have not been a good friend.