Wind And Waves Poem by Clive Blake

Man's engineered structures built with pride,
Are no long-term match for wind and tide, Relentless wind and waves combine,
To create a force not bound by time,
And King Canute can, of course, testify,
That their supremacy you cannot defy,
So all promenades reaching from land to sea,
Are doomed to disa-pier, eventually.

Cometh climate challenge, cometh the hour,
Urgency dictates we harness their power,
We need to ditch our reliance on fossil sources,
And take full advantage of nature's forces,
So let wave-floats bob and wind blades rotate,
For we must change our ways before it's too late.