I Wish I Could Save the World
Photo by Athul Cyriac Ajay on Unsplash
I wish I could save the world with one keystroke
Delete carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Duplicate animals and plants from endangered species
Paste forests over mutilated landscapes
I wish I could Command-Z all of our mistakes
Unbleach the corals
Unacidify the oceans
Unmelt the glaciers
Undeplete the soil
I wish I could save the world in BOLD CAPITAL LETTERS
With the urgency italicized and underlined
Even though I know it’s obnoxious
And kind of overkill
I wish I could save the world with a Photoshop brush
Paint over bad layers
And convert grayscale to color