Cool

These are somber times again when sun alone is not enough to warm our frigid spirits.
 
How ironic we are cold when kings and presidents are ripe with malice that is crafted fire.
 
All around us anger boils about the migrants swarming in, ruining our peerless race.  “Hell! Are all our elders blind?” a youngster yells with guns galore while hooded Klansmen clap and laugh.  “Now’s the time to start the war that starts by killing all in sight and stirring up the will to fight.”
 
We, however, are not stirred.  Sheltered in our vague despair we’re chilled within our thoughts and prayers.  Though we scarcely fear or hate, and wear our humor as a cape, we’ll never be heroic. No!  We are kind and gentle souls who stay at home and cool ourselves with hopes for better times ahead.
 
Leaders, heaven help us, order, “Burn the jungle.  Spoil the soil and waste the water.  What it’s all about is oil.”
 
Tundra thaws and glaciers melt while penguins, polar bears and whales begin to disappear in droves.  “That’s a shame,” is all we pant.  Because we live so far away we never really see a panther.
 
Strangely, we can stay so cool as global warming steams ahead of all those terrors that we dread.