Heat

the quality of being hot.

Intensity of feeling, especially of anger or excitement.

We live with heat

Some live without air conditioning and ice

And sometimes without ice chest or refrigerators to save food

We feel heat with anger

When you cannot see anymore because adrenaline coats your eyes

You are the fury of animals who used to hunt every day but now sit to get their resources

You become heated with desire

For the dreams that you have, and people you want to touch

And of things long gone that your fingertips cannot grasp but that you need you need.

And the world is experiencing global warming

Our icebergs are falling and our animals are dying

Our own waste suffocates us because we have too much of everything.

And maybe our suffocation makes us want to yell and scream.

I argue that we are experiencing not only a natural global warming,

But a social global warming of our suffocated and dying minds tainted by the chemical of fear.

We now expound information that comes in faster than it is made.

We are furious with injustice because we can now literally see it all around us.

And we can hide the information that makes us feel good and turn our blinders to reality.

We are heated by our connection and by our knowledge

And as we work harder and become more overwhelmed we heat up inside.

And I don’t want us to explode and turn into a fertilizing piece of ash floating in space

Because the last time this many humans got too heated

We destroyed two cities in Japan.

And I don’t want our Social Global Warming to burn the skin off of us.

Maybe it is time to look to the future

To remember but not dwell on past experiences.

Because our hard drives are overheating, we can smell the smoke

and the smoke is ready to burn us into oblivion.