Thursday, July 22, 2021

Under Siege

Smoke billows from a wildfire, seen from Highway 3 lookout near Osoyoos city, British Columbia, Canada July 20, 2021, in this picture obtained from social media.

Hell's gatekeeper, it seems, has become lax

no longer guarding the sacred precincts of the

damned oblivious to the fugitive hosts of hellfire 

abandoning their posts despite that so many have 

descended whose souls require constant flagellation 

in recognition of their sins of commission against 

fellow humans. Aides de feu now roam upper Earth's 

forests bringing with them fire and brimstone and 

inhumane heat the devil himself would happily lave 

within. Rumour has it that an ungodly pact was reached 

between heaven and hell not to interfere with one another's 

gifts to humanity. Indubitable gifts they are; sun and rain  

from above, fire from below, essential to existence

the excess of which equates to nature's dysfunctional

uneven distribution over her creation; abnormal heat

domes of punishing depths sparking drought and

wildfires of perishing dimensions while elsewhere

hurricanes usher copious rains flushing mountain

sides into valleys below while rivers and lakes swell

overrun their floodplains drowning humanity's efforts

at taming nature's geological boundaries into disaster.

 

 


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