Swelter and sweat
In the heat, dry or wet
Retreat indoors
Crank the AC some more..
Forest fires and smoke
The sky in haze cloaked
Apocalyptic floods elsewhere
Torrential rains, water everywhere
Relentlessly the glaciers shrink
Bridges and levees sink
Temperatures to new highs soar
Breaking records, then some more
Some shake their heads, some cry
That climate change is real, some deny
None of us knows exactly what to do
A pandemic we’ve just been through
Negative news we want to ignore
As the world heats up some more…
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The promise that summer used to bring
Is fading away, let it not be something
That we simply learn to endure
Humankind has a responsibility to ensure
That our source of sustenance does not transform
Into a calamitous destructive form..
Passion...unbridled 
That is what we are doing, isn’t it? Enduring summer. Too hot to do anything outside with soaring temps. Stay inside with the A/c cranked and pay the price with soaring electric bills. Good gosh…
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