The End Times
/We’re living
in the end times.
Fire burns parts
of the world
like a scourge.
The Arctic burns
as a heat wave
spreads fire on
the permafrost’s
highest layer.
The Amazon burns
near a huge city.
Smoke from the
rainforest drifts
to Sao Paulo.
Australia burns.
Bushfires take
lives of men and
animals in the
Black Summer.
California burns.
An inferno grows
beyond control.
It moves toward
Lake Tahoe.
Fire burns across
these four places.
We’re living
in the end times
and it scares us.
By Sarah Henry
From: United States