There will
have to be a new normal
One where we look after each other
One where we, as humans
do not contribute
to our very own extinction.
With caring,
soft touch, it was not to be
But human hands often are cruel.
Capable of being cruel to other people
we have been the cruelest to
the things we consider lesser
We would even poison the rivers
that we drink from.
In the past
we did not care
Now when human life gets threatened
we care,
Hands that have done this much harm
cannot be simply washed.
While humans
don’t even stand as one
we slowly found out
that the environment we contaminated
was a part of us
We were one
We could never be separated.
We are on a ship
we have caused damage to.
If humans, we do not act as one.
One team, with the same goal -
to survive,
We will not survive nature,
we will not survive ourselves.
