BABY BOOMER CRASH ©JewelRainbow2009

The stockmarket crashed last year and turned at once from bull to bear

Savaging those once flush with cash now burned and broken everywhere

Flash homes and cars and credit cards, we’ve now had to discard

Our selfish greed and excess, we’ve now had to redress

Our lazy kids, so overindulged and smugly rich
Now forced reluctantly to ditch their expensive wheels and toys

And live simply along with the rest of us like other girls and boys
Perhaps someday they’ll see the value in downsizing

For the sake of our long-neglected and now uprising Mother Earth,
Whom we should have put first, now we can’t claim surprise to see her arise

From her lengthy slumber with frightening quakes and lightning and thunder

For real and metaphorical, she’s telling us these times are allegorical

More than merely interesting, they’re sure to be historical

For far from guarding our great planet, we have forced her now to fight us
On behalf of other threatened lives and for her own right to survive us

And until now her global warnings have all but been ignored

As instead the West and the rest of the world has just whored her
And hoarded or rewarded ourselves with profits from her resources

And polluted and poisoned her bountiful seas and water courses

The baby boomer binge is over now that we have greedily gorged ourselves

On what we should have shared, until it made us sick

And if we want a future here we’d better change real quick

And ask why, in a world so rich, are there still so many poor?

And why, when we have so much, do we always want so much more?