The Hottest Day
/The hottest day will not
be the hottest day ever
in our time
So far we still have no way
to suppress soaring
of atmospheric temperature
Our planet just experienced
the hottest day in 100,000 year
The record was toppled the next day
and again, the next
We overly indulge ourselves
in exploitation of our environment
In return Nature tests our tolerance
to rising temperature
When wildfires rampage
asphalt melts under the sun
massive die-off of fish occurs
in green house warmed ocean
extinctions of species speed up
what hope we still have
if we do not act fast
in preventing Earth
turning into a worse heat-trap
By Shih-Fang Wang
From: United States