Rehearsal

Crown virus runs wild,
    covert carbon stalks the planet.
 Some shelter in place
    prepare to flee the famine.
 Some work from home     

    plan to escape the drought

Try to expand hospital capacity    

    race to higher ground

Some hunker down   

    save the burning forests

Try to flatten the curve            

   put away the fossil fuels

Build more ventilators

    build a new economy

Some of us wear masks

    every year the spring comes earlier

Some of us will get the vaccine 

   the summers get hotter

Others cannot believe in the unseen

    can we mitigate disaster?

Others ignore what is plain sight

    can we save the birds?