DIDACTIC: "BROKEN UMBRELLA" BY BISHOP SAHR ISAAC PETERSON
Women water hope daily
Climate calls for unity
Small hands, big change
Mothers teach earth care
Youth voice leads action
Future breathes with us
Women guard river sources
Children chase clean skies
Climate change spares none
Grandmothers know soil wisdom
Daughters inherit warming world
Floods steal school shoes
Hunger walks beside children
Climate action needs everyone
Children demand cleaner air
Women build resilient communities
Heatwaves burn tin roofs
Girls miss classes daily
Boys carry water miles
Childhood melts under sun
Schoolchildren map rising tides
Girls lead recycling clubs
Climate science feels personal
Drought shuts rural schools
Mothers sell last goats
Sons become climate laborers
Dreams buried in dust
Women weave solar futures
Children run through shade
Climate equity matters now
Pregnant women breathe smoke
Crop failure breeds violence
Widows walk displacement camps
Bodies carry climate wounds
Children cannot wait longer
Women bear climate burdens
Climate action means inclusion
Famines take small bodies
Girls forced into marriage
Boys lose childhood fast
Hunger abuses their future
For children yet unborn
For women leading change
Climate action starts today
Pollution poisons mother’s milk
Asthma steals child sleep
Coastal floods erase homes
Generations pay for greed
Storms rock fragile shelters
Women shield wet babies
Children sleep in mud
Cyclones orphan young families
Mothers bury lost daughters
Fathers break under pressure
Safety washed away nightly
Reduce waste, save water
Protect forests, cut emissions
Love earth like family
Hope still grows slowly
Women lead restoration work
Children demand justice now
Future thanks us later
© Bishop Sahr Isaac Peterson
Association of Pan-African Authors (APA-SL)
Poetry Reading Club, PRC, FBC, University of Sierra Leone.
"Broken Umbrella" by Bishop Sahr Isaac Peterson highlights the severe impact of climate change on women and children, showing how disasters, hunger, and displacement threaten their lives and futures. At the same time, it celebrates their resilience and calls for collective action to protect the environment and build a more just and sustainable world.
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