Aftermath

The effects of Global Warming are obvious and paramount for anyone who has experienced living through the past fifty years. Take heed.

Sky bolts fresh from Zeus’s hand,

Split the heavens. Dark demands

Spark incendiary lightning and

Conflagration quick expands.

Charring all within its reach.

With growling, heaving, urgent speech,

Warnings flung a thousand-fold

Find mankind’s hardened ears untold.

 

Tsunamis born of Neptune’s ire,

Forged of sea’s unbridled power,

Portend death, O cruelest hour!

Life and limbs rogue rains devour.

Lost souls tethered to its breast

Seething, breathing, ne’er at rest;

Till storm surge sullenly recedes

Exposing Nature as she bleeds.

 

Arise no more, ungodly sun!

Sol-searing heat can’t be undone!

Unfiltered ultra-rays, long-shunned,

Burn withered flesh to ashes gone.

Near bursting with unfitting love

With no thought or cognition of

Harsh elements you leave behind,

Fools die and crumble, deaf and blind.

  

This Earth, man-free, shall soldier on

For eons after we are gone,

With nary trace man trod upon

Our fragile planet we once won.

In truth, we lost it in our haste

To lay its untold wealth to waste.

And, now, She wanders with no clue

Of the paradise we Human’s knew.