My climate is wild
Full of complexity
And pale reefs.
A special habitat of
Fire, ice,
And red herrings.
 
My climate is not OK
My climate is NOT a lie.
My climate is full of rising seas
And worldwide warming,
A risky economy
Of looming extinction
Fuelled by the basic laws of thermodynamics
And regression:
A human-caused energy imbalance.
 
My climate is a challenge;
A collection of
frequent extreme events.
A war of
Science integrity vs
Corporate PR machines.
Perverse denials and
Moral disasters
Caused by intergenerational inequality.
 
My climate is entangled;
A scary, dangerous, place
Full of loss and extremes.
No lights.
Less food.
An uncertain future where
We will all be refugees
Or extinct.
Sold out on self-interested, short-termism politics;
There’s been too much take
And not enough give –
A lack of