let's do nothing

Let’s do nothing

As it goes

Let's do nothing but watch as it

drip-drops

life

  away.

Let's do nothing

 as languages are lost

  faces forgotten

   as we become copies

Let's do nothing, yes

Let's stand by

Let's do nothing

As our neighbours are murdered, till

It trickles red under our doors –

  It always starts as a trickle.

Let's do nothing

 as smoke fills our lungs

gathers round our children

  our own children

 Let's do nothing

 As our dogs run away

  Howling how could you

   Let's do nothing

    As the aerials tear from the rooftops

Let's do nothing.

Let's do nothing,

Sit distracted, glance outside

as the last leaf drifting, down

Dead

  Let's do nothing as

 a snowflake

the final snowflake

 melts

Away – gone

there won’t be another for ten thousand years

there won't be another while we ––

How could we?

   the idea of ice will be lost

 as the oceans rise up against us

      Uncaring the sun will scab our skin

 and the deserted land beneath our feet

  Lose its blue blanket

      burning

 skies quake

  forests thunder

    seas churn

sands spread and

 Spread and spread and

           blow over our bones

 without a sigh

  But a whisper how

could you.

 You

you see the last living things

 go, whimpering,

or silent as the grasses gone

 rigor mortised under

a barren branch

 in the wind, the wind, no longer a whisper but

a scream

  how could you

do

nothing.

Our soles have forgotten the sound of soil.

Yes, let's do nothing as the world ends.

Let's do no–––

    Let’s

 Do

Some

  Thing

Let's

 Wake

  Up

From

    Our

  Nice

Dream ––––

.:.