Robin Ford, April 2020

Three ways that life on earth could disappear.
A meteor strikes earth a telling blow;
Volcanoes belch out ash that hides the sun;
Excessive CO2 means earth’s too hot;
Or there again, a virus though it’s small
Can commandeer our bodies as it grows.
Our one defence is implement a siege
And starve the virus ‘til it disappears.
Can this be true? Can this be how life ends?
I cannot hold together in my mind
The world-view that I built and served me well,
With one that tells me life on earth might die.
Reality’s too strange, I’ll choose instead,
The fantasy I built inside my head.