Fossil not Fuel

A sonnet

Photo by William J Spirdione

Let’s leave the dead in the ground for a change.
Give ancestors the respect they deserve.
Millions of years under a mountain range,
Energy released, some should be conserved.

Aquatic phytoplankton, zooplankton,
So many died, many eons ago.
The anaerobic decomposition,
The high heat and pressure, energy flows.

Did these long-dead souls want their kin to see,
Acidification of the ocean,
Once primordial, in which they swam free.
Heating planet, we should show devotion.

We do not dig up the cemetery.
Past is not the futures adversary.