DUTY Poem by Alexis de Roode

I was sitting on a chair in the office today
and fighting against climate change
when someone said on Facebook:
The earth is now the coldest it's been
in the past three hundred million years.
I suddenly realized that there have been animals
for five hundred million years already
and that I still have some dozens of years to go.

I felt like getting up from my chair
and walking off into the polder,
to look at a leaf of grass
as I had never looked at one before.
But I stayed seated,
did my job.