THE HEAT GIVES NO RELIEF <br /> <br /> <br />The heat gives no relief <br />All inside palls <br />The mind does not work <br />Discomfort rules the world <br />Is there no way out? <br /> <br />The icecap melts <br />Everywhere a cruel malaise <br />Sinks the human spirit- <br /> <br />The sky is a threat <br />And the sun is an enemy. <br /> <br />We have become our own darkness <br />And do not have the courage <br />To resist our fossil fuel hunger <br /> <br />What will become of us? <br />The only creature we know <br />Capable of true contemplation <br />And changing worlds? <br /> <br />We stumble in the chaos of our own malaise <br />We must wake up before we are dead <br /> <br />But who will lead us? Where and how and now? <br />In a world of <br />More heat more discomfort <br />An increasingly unlivable earth?<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-heat-gives-no-relief/
