The Melting North

The Melting North

(http://www.voicesonglobalwarming.com/themeltingnorth.html)


Serenity prevails

A quaint feeling of loneliness

The white epithet dwells in peace

Among tranquility with dozed off lids

The sun now touch the zenith high

The cold numbness utters a sigh

Milky rays mingle with the milky white atmosphere

Ecclesiastical designs curve the snow, innately

Suddenly a storm arise, blizzard strucks the snowy high

Huge masses of ice start to melt

As the sol now inundate with burning rays

The little seal seek to hide

From the warmth, from the fight

Its mother had been killed the day before,

Harpooned like a fish

Now it seeks a place to hide, a place to rest in peace.

The ice now breaks with deafening sound,

Rubble fills the air; blocks of ice shatter into pieces

Can He mend the mess we have caused?

Can He cool the global warmth…? Alas if He could

In South the Chimneys swell, billowing black clouds percolate the sky

The unused plastic in the corner rest, dumped with rotten garbage

Which go to landfills and stink the surrounding hill

The baggage are then burnt to dust, and dust fills the air

The air then travels to the horizon high

Breaking the ozone with restless might

We see the North again as we ope our eye

The Polar Bear seek a little help, a little ice to survive and rest

Alas we are stronger than the world, a heartless, ridiculed race

We bend to prove our mettle and strength

Yet, we forget the world we reign

A nimiety of niceties we hear

A nebulous, unconcerned plan from every other person

But the snow never ceases to melt

Never stops the ice to break

Global warming a phenomenon is

Many fail to affirm that

Countless laugh and say it an outrageous fact

The Northern lights now dance in the sky

A dance of death it is

It seeks to kill all it finds

It seeks to lull the North to sleep

The Polar bears now hide in pain

Not from the earth, but from us

A repugnant human pursuit

Seek to demolish the animal race

Killed are Seals, killed are bears

Stabbed is the environment

Not by god, not by Satan

But by that heartless human.

By
Barnali Saha Banerjee
Nashville,TN

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