Climate Change

Which would you prefer, drowning?
serene at
all your edges,
clarity in every thought
and just enough vision remaining
to see the beauty of
what's coming?


Or, as in Pakistan,
clawing at
muck-clouded eyes
desiring one last pure look
at once your land, your family farm
now gone, like your family
to water?

My husband and I have
sponsored a child in Pakistan.
His name is Sajid.
He is nine years old.