The question is, he said
what we intend to do about it
when it happens, as it inevitably will.

He got no response, had not
expected any response despite
the critical nature of the question.

He knew no one wanted
to talk about it, nor even to think
about its onrushing consequences.

But it was the world that he
would inherit from them, and their
platitudes would do nothing for him.

They would call him a troublemaker,
he and his peers, but they knew
only they could save the world.