Jan 30, 2019 Original Poetry
Climate Change Metaphysics
©January 30th, 2019
By Vijaya Sundaram
When every moment freezes lightly
Over melting glaciers of time,
With hollowed spaces under and beneath,
Will you know when to leap into the air
When an entire continent breaks off,
A holocaust of ice, an ice-melt of regret?
Will you bemoan its breaking
And weep over the rushing ice-streams
Bursting forth, and smashing
Into a freezing sea? Will you cry out,
“If only I’d known, I’d have made a life,
I’d have done something!”?
And when you leap off at that moment,
Arms spread out, will you then be airborne?
Will you come down as rain?
And when you do, will you weep salt tears,
Will you slide into an ocean of nothing,
Never to know you, never to be you again?
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