ENERGY SHIFTS

Did we count 

the cost of Paris

From the resource 
point 
on which
now we  rely?

Have we moved

our hands 

to agreement

While our mouths

become  dry?

Have we considered

the shifts

which can slip 

our economy

into a trench?

Did we count 

the cost of Paris?

in francs 

dollars or  

even cents?

The economic globe

gyrates 

on treaties

Which like 

prophesies

foretell

The wealth of 

world’s economies

First and Third 

world spells

From wood

to coal, to fossils

We have so 

gracefully 
evolved

Still on  this 

shift to
renewables

Some economies

shall dissolve

As this treaty 

called Paris

dares  

to manipulate

much fates

Unless we are

first movers

Adamant 
that 

we will not wait

When low carbon
emissions come 
with many 

conversion cost

And energy
revolutions  follow
with great

diversion loss

So let us 
count the cost 
of Paris 
And by this we must 

prepare

And create much

Renewable
energy
systems

here

Then we will 
be truly ready 

for the diversion from

this energy

shift to come

And  manufacture

equipment 
for harness

of water,biomass,

wind and sun

In all energy 
transitions

There is  
a definite way 
to win

Hence  Trinis
must move early

on this energy spin

Let us count 

the cost of Paris

now!

Copyright©2018 by Camille Caliscia Patrick

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