Smoldering Ice
by Odin Roark

Atop the precipice of denial
seethes ignorance and want,
grasping tenuously the remains of gluttony,
its acrid desecration drifting
ever downward into once frozen waters of life,
suffocating all attempts at reason,
rendering a world’s future futile.

Now at Nature’s once controlled spillways,
conscience drifts further out to sea,
its once mountainous glaciers now but
fractures of ice made smaller and smaller
by amoral heat-creating-consumers.

With fail-safe warnings of science ignored by power and greed,
consumption’s pandemic merely continues its delusion,
buying feverish time as smoldering ice goes unabated,
its evaporative plumes succumbing to a raped and pillaged conscience,
a species becoming its own impetuous dead zone.