Hottest Year (Again)

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL WARMING

 

Hottest Year (Again)

 

It is the hottest year on record

Not a record we desire

It is one we can’t afford

The droughts, the storms, the fires

 

Are we beginning to take note

Or do we place it in the file

Of the things we never wrote

Are we going out in style?

 

Another year of the great warming

Or pretending it’s not here

Of grifting and of warring

Another ship we didn’t steer

 

It is an existential question

That’s something we should know

We have failed to make connections

While the crisis only grows

 

I know it’s hard to pay attention

When it isn’t on your table

I know we’re hoping for inventions

That will make the climate stable

 

If we’re banking on the latter

We should place a bet on science

We should raise a cry that shatters

But all we hear is silence

 

Please say it isn’t so

That we care about the earth

Tell me something I don’t know

For whatever it is worth