CLIMATE DEBT LONG OVERDUE
A poem written by Nnimmo Bassey, Director Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF)
CLIMATE DEBT A LONG OVERDUE DEBT
A poem written on 24th April 2020, read on May 6th by a young girl in Comoros Islands
You want to know
If and when the Climate Debt will ever be paid
When will the debtors agree there is a bill?
Could be soon… Could also be later
Don’t you see?
Can’t you yet perceive it?
Like the Natural Mystic 🎶
Probably a Climate Lockdown?
A stormy knockdown to wake us up?
Why are we so stuck up
Why do we imagine we are so strong
Don’t you see?
Can’t you yet perceive it?
By adorning a sunny crown
A tiny virus with Martian suction landing pads
Craves unwary nostrils, mouths and eyes
Made super powers powerless
Powerless, like in powerless
Don’t you see?
Can’t you yet perceive it?
Climate lockdown
Could be sooner
No, not later
With or without a crooner
Do not here mention corona
Don’ you see?
Can you yet still not perceive it?
