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