Closer to midnight

“Looks like it’s getting closer to midnight

on 31st December and not sure we’ve got a viable plan.”

The climate change traffic lights

may have gone green in Paris

& while all around engines might be revving

-       few have yet to drop the clutch

Are we mentally strapped

by fear of financial meltdown?

will we be emancipated

by the shift of currencies based on simple gold

rather than hopes & promises compounded

Perhaps we are numbed

by the precipitous drop in the price of oil

-       those gallons gushing into the sky

as CO2

All those sheds

all those paddocks round the world

all those ‘Charlie Taylors’ making engines

from aluminium rather than cast iron

to help this centuries Wright brothers

dreams take flight

Those thousands of ideas,

 concepts, 3D printing, computer design

in hundreds of languages

linked by the common computer

with the identical target

however achieved

of CO2 reduction & sequestration

It may not be a plan

but it might just be viable.