What if this moment became a rebirth?
A paradigm shift in consciousness and awareness
Where we better understood our collective place in the ecosystem?
Watching the pathetic antics of the Johnson-Trump-Bolsonaro triumvirate
It's hard not to view the crisis as a morality tale
A warning of what happens when overweening hubris
Conquers a grounded awareness of responsibilities and constraints
Icarus flying too close to the sun all over again
Symbol of a culture that sucks up the resources of four planets
And vomits out a steady stream of toxic waste
Watch naive young Icarus flying in the face of ecological meltdown
Watch tired old business-as-usual trump a radical rethink
Now that we've pressed the pause button, has a space opened up ?
Can we at last see that our lives of profligate consumption and wanton waste require a re-imagining?
Can we pivot and change direction?
Or are we condemned to keep playing the same old song
Needle stuck on the same crumbling record?
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