A Sad Thing To Say Poem by Francis Duggan

It is said that their numbers are growing ever rare
That climate change is taking toll on the white Arctic bear
That due to a thinning of the ice which makes it harder for them to catch prey
Of drowning and of hunger they are dying every day
The Siberian tiger the largest of the big cats in the wild state quite rare
And are even more endangered than the Polar bear
Climate change it does seem is now out of control
And on many species of birds and animals is taking toll
Some claim that climate change is escalated by human greed
That to bring about our own extinction we may even succeed
People still burning fossil fuels despite climate experts advice
The successes of human kind it does come at a price
The children of the future for our mistakes will pay
And that does indeed seem a sad thing to say.