FOR EVERY ACTION

 FOR EVERY ACTION

Earth’s winters,

usually quite long, snowy and cold, 

are faced with dread by most, but 

joy for some who take pleasure 

in gliding on trails in the woods, 

or sliding down hills near to their hood. 

Most, however, shake their fist at the sky

dreading each and every flurry, that 

needed to be shovelled, 

and piled sky high.

But then, those were the days before 

the temperature rose, and 

the forests, dry as tinder, 

began to smoulder in summer’s heat,

caught fire, and the smoke and carbon, 

from a thousand fires,

helped to change the weather for keeps.

Now, as the seasons change, 

we wait and wonder if the rains 

will change to snow, or whether 

the cold of old will be tempered,

and rain will pour from the sky,

flood the earth causing everyone 

to shake their fist and ask “why”. 

The answer, obvious to some, 

ignored by the many. 

In our quest for fame and fortune, we failed 

to place Nature in the equation. We failed 

to heed the advice of a man named Newton

who once said that for every action, 

their will be an  opposite reaction. 

Nature’s balance perfectly woven 

now unravelled by our actions,

we’re faced with wondering, 

what will happen if we lose the cold?