C for Covid
C for Corona
C C for Climate Change
C1
See what we got inside us
Inside our nostrils
See how we sneezed to cough
Inside our throats and tonsils
See how our throats stored the sores
Inside our lungs
See how we squeezed to breathe
See how Corona corroded those
See what we got inside us?
See what we committed to Covid
We masked up
We distanced apart
We sanitized around
We closed to lock down
We assembled Astra, Pfizer and Moderna
We commissioned Sputnik and Johnson
See how we converted these into instant vaccinations
See how much we committed to Covid?
See what Covid committed against us
Covid melted away our jobs
And left us with many sobs
Covid confiscated our visas
And confined us to our lazy chairs
Covid peeled away our precious life
Beginning from our men
And ending with our women
Never mind whether he was our husband
Or she was our wife
See what Covid committed against us?
C2
See what we have done
See what we have done to our earth mate
Our climate
See what we have changed
In our climate
See what has changed
In our climate
See how we changed our climate
Chlorofluorocarbons we emitted
…from aerosols and canisters
…from refrigerators and freezers
…from the industrialized Free Zone
Into the thick layers of the Ozone
Even when we still inhabited our comfort zone
We burned coal and heated diesel
We vaporised petrol into fossil fuel
We dispatched soot from carbon into the Stratosphere
As a smokescreen for the damage already done
See how we changed our climate?
See why we changed our climate
We got tired of afforestation
We fired up for deforestation
We never got tired of charcoal cooking
We fired up more with more firewood
We designed habitats in place of our forest cover
We waded roads through our forest cover
We loved to wade through dried-up lakes and rivers
We dredged on escaping excavators
…prospecting for hidden treasures
See why we changed our climate?
See what the climate changed on our earth
The Ozone changed to layers of holes
The Sun saw the holes as escape routes
And the Sun shone through the holes
…in the Ozone layers
The heat bore through the holes
…to hit the earth
The heat escalated its steam to raise forest fires
And the heat broke the tip of the iceberg
The ice melted at boiling point
The ice caused a rise in oceanic depths and heights
And the heights flooded the earth in a deluge
As a calamitous prelude to a climatic catastrophe
