I was one of the blessed performers to have been taken from Nairobi Kenya to Vancouver by the United Nations to perform poetry at the 3rd World Urban Forum. The topic in dealing was Urban Sustainability. Here is one of the poems I performed there.

UNLESS WE'RE FORCED TO

(SUNG)

I dont think that people will change

Unless we're forced to we wont be

Giving up our Range

Or our Mercedes

Its all about the money

(SPOKEN)

And when it hits its going to be disaster recovery

we have received warning for a long time now

Earths climate is changing

its toxic when its raining and the sun

stimulates the growth of cancerous cells

even in skin protected with menelin

we are at risk of lung disease

because even the trees cant renew this C02 into oxygen

and oxygen is lacking

the Earth is cracking caughing dropping signs of global warming

and we are still steering in the wrong direction

increasing oil prices increasing landfill increasing tin cans increasing increasing increasing

space decreasing

and at this rate we place more value on a Nike shoe lace

than we do the crafting slave child

the one who died of Aids child

and it is sickening that a shoe can hold more value than some human lives do

increasing increasing population increasing

2billion 4billion 6billion and counting up up up and our counting up up up is our count down down

down we go

the trees we chop take hundereds of years to grow and I know you have heard the warnings

the Earth cracking caughing dropping signs of global warming are appearing and we are still steering in the wrong direction 

and that is why I say to you

(SUNG)

 I dont think that people will change

unless we're forced to we wont be

giving up our Range

or our Mercedes

Its all about the money