NonEssential

What is essential to me
Might seem frivolous to you.
Hours spent playing with a child
Or caring for an elder are essential.
Play, touch, love are things
People need to live.

Fracking is nonessential
Injecting chemicals to break the Earth
Causing cancer, polluting streams,
Cooking the world with gas
Do we really need that?
Yet gas companies keep doing it.
COVID doesn’t stop them.

Essentially polluting the world for money

Seeds and gardens are essential
Planting new life, growing food
When I go by a community garden,
Closed as nonessential,
I wonder, do they even
know where life comes from?