Change

The now is known. Far out of range Lock stock and barrel, past is gone For all is transience and change Posterity will rearrange The world, the climate's loaded gun For all is transience and change Abbey and cottage, hut and grange May briefly stand beneath the sun Beware! All's transience and change Embrace the whole. We must exchange Our ways, or we will be undone Fast. All is transience and change A sparrow falls, the wood feels strange Denuded of that little one Weep! All is transience and change Pesticides, poisons, can derange The planet's life. Destruction Has come with transience and change The earth stands at the interchange Survive, or meet oblivion So swift comes transience and change,