Call To Action: Alarums Poem by Richard St. Clair

I'm tired of moping over days long past:
I'd rather mope over our sick planet Earth!
I've spent many words on it, my money's worth,
I just don't know how long life here can last.
Even so I find some solace and some joy,
No matter how impermanent or fleeting,
In music that just keeps my heart a-beating,
And shouts of conscience, even to annoy.
The time is ripe for changes, always were:
The need for change must waken sleeping folk
Who rest in drear denial, that's no joke,
Lest all we love and value not endure.
Beethoven wrote his Fifth, deaf not withstanding:
Now let us show resolve, together banding.