It was so hot I wore no sweat
Its drops evaporated into the clouds of thunder
So hot was it I felt a chill
When the howling winds and rain washed over skin
Cracked and dried from uncommon fire
Breathed down on Earth from skies too bright
For even clouds to shadow white skin seared brown

Rivers once fed life with greenery
Thirsting one moment then flooded and drowned the next
Homes lost neath raging waters
Then left low and dry neath Sun and mud moved by Nature's scorn
Followed closely by the fury of Hellfire
From the winds of drought that sucked dry the mold
Taking root in the foundation of human exhaust filling the sky

01/26/2013

Author's Note: Written for a poetry contest on aother site about the heat of Global Warming. Other poems I have written on Global Warming... "He Who Laughs Last Will Be A Fertile Mutant Cockroach" & "Mother oh Mother" JJ

Posted on 01/26/2013
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