Climate Change

Climate Change

With all this furor over emails
And the debating who, is right
How can anybody question
That we all face a real plight?

Our political persuasion
Or position, rich or poor
Should not, make a difference
We should all, try to do more.

The ice is disappearing
And the oceans on the rise
Drought and crops are failing
And less ozone in our skies.

Caused by Man or Nature?
Greenhouse effect from CO2?
From El Niño or La Niña?
Could they all be lies, or true?

It’s beyond comprehension
Some think, we don’t leave our brand
With our burning fossil fuels
As we desecrate the Land.

We pollute our precious water
Fish our oceans to the brink
Don’t worry as the Polar Bear
Is about to become, extinct.

Big polluters fight the change
Because, they don’t really care
Their bottom line is all that matters
They don’t want to do their share.

It’s the almighty dollar
Which will rule, in this fight
Unless the people of the World
Demand, we all do, what’s right.

It surely won’t hurt anything
If we at least, try to change our fate
Though, it might not make a difference
Because, it may already be too late.

Del “Abe” Jones
12.11.2009

Afghanistan

Another Way?

Some say we should send more
There’s those say, we shouldn’t
Some think we can win this war
And others say, we couldn’t.

Eight years in, too many killed
Without any success, shown
Back at square one, where we started
Something, we should have known?

The plight of Women an excuse
To give them rights and dignity
While we have our own here at home
Who still aren’t completely free.

The children are another reason
To feed them and send to school
With all the kids on our own streets
Hypocrisy?  Wonder who we fool ?

Our Troops walk past the Poppy fields
And it just doesn’t seem quite fair
While here at home, we put in jail
Folks, who use those drugs from there.

Do they really want their freedoms
Will it last, when we have gone
Can we really change their ways
Or will their hate for us, live on?

Can we actually stop the terrorists
If they are determined, will they fear
Our wrath, there in their mountains
When they can cross our borders, here?

Every time we kill or capture one
There are many more waiting in line
To be martyrs, for all those virgins
Who think their death, will be divine.

Corruption in their government?
What difference does it really make
When we have our own politicians
Who like them, are on the “take”?

Of course, it would be so nice
To stop this awful human scourge
But those animals won’t go extinct
With just, another senseless surge.

No matter, how much they spin it
And ask us, once more for our trust
Can we believe it’s the best way
And the loss of precious life, is just?

We should spend all those dollars here
And save some lives at the same time
Try, getting our own house in order
And instead of war, try some peacetime.

Del “Abe” Jones
12.04.2009