The Ultimate Sacrifice<\/b><\/p>\n
A True Story in Verse<\/b><\/p>\n
Dedicated to the children of today, who are our future<\/span><\/p>\n By Simon Law<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n 1<\/span><\/p>\n Global warming, \u2018it\u2019s just a blip\u2019, we said, as we carried on our toil<\/span><\/p>\n Hacking down the rainforests because, \u2018we need more Palm Oil\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018No-one cares about the Orangutans with their long gangly arms\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n The problem was, they didn\u2019t realise, the extent of the harm<\/span><\/p>\n 2<\/span><\/p>\n The ice caps were melting, the sea levels rose,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The sky was polluted, and still big business chose ..<\/span><\/p>\n To carry on their voyage towards profits and with greed …<\/span><\/p>\n chose to ignore, the millions of hungry mouths to feed<\/span><\/p>\n verses 3 – 13 available to downlaod<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n 14<\/span><\/p>\n So what happened next? my precious child, you ask with curious awe<\/span><\/p>\n Did we <\/span>really<\/span><\/i> go back, to the way we were before?<\/span><\/p>\n Well, look around and tell me. Tell me, was it worth the price?<\/span><\/p>\n The price so many thousands paid .. The Ultimate Sacrifice<\/span><\/p>\n Epilogue<\/span><\/p>\n 15<\/span><\/p>\n And now we have a choice, of the road that we can take<\/span><\/p>\n Let\u2019s hope that it\u2019s the right one, for all our futures sake<\/span><\/p>\n So here\u2019s our plea as children, <\/span>\u201cdon\u2019t let the signs be misread\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Please .. listen to us, and our planet, and <\/span>\u201cchange the way ahead<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Covid-19 has been such a scourge on humanity throughout the world with over 5,000,000 having succumbed to it. Let’s hope they haven’t passed in vain. Was it always going to be this way, an ‘Event’ – a ‘wake-up call’ delivered to us from the planet which we are privileged to be allowed to inhabit.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"'The Ultimate Sacrifice' - The Planet will Survive! The Human Race may not!","_seopress_titles_desc":"The death toll is now over 5 million worldwide from Covid 19. Is the planet trying to tell us something but we as the human race are not listening? Let's hope it's not too late to change the way ahead, for all our future's sake.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"product_cat":[244,227,239,78,81,69],"product_tag":[46,28,70,72,240],"class_list":{"0":"post-11103","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-cross-curricular","7":"product_cat-monologue","8":"product_cat-simon-law","9":"product_cat-new-and-original-scripts-sketches-and-poems","10":"product_cat-solo-audition-pieces","11":"product_cat-scripts-and-sketches","12":"product_tag-grade-6","13":"product_tag-drama","14":"product_tag-audition","15":"product_tag-assembly","16":"product_tag-grade-7-8","17":"age-adult","18":"age-13-years","19":"verse_and_prose-individual","20":"verse_and_prose-small-group-3-6","21":"verse_and_prose-large-group-7-12","22":"verse_and_prose-whole-class-13","23":"boys_and_or_girls-both-either","26":"instock","27":"featured","28":"downloadable","29":"virtual","30":"purchasable","31":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scriptsandsketches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scriptsandsketches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scriptsandsketches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scriptsandsketches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11103"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scriptsandsketches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12486,"href":"https:\/\/scriptsandsketches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11103\/revisions\/12486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scriptsandsketches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scriptsandsketches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scriptsandsketches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=11103"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scriptsandsketches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=11103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}