excess of life's the problem

the problem is the system is alive
with solar heat and in the summer all
the greenery and flowers that we see
are tributes to the power of the sun

but now this heat that has gone on for weeks
makes tropics seem like almost arctic places
the storms that bring harsh winds and coin-sized hail
are children of the sun just like the flowers

this is not life abundant and overflowing
in tribute to the power's of nature's sun
this is life in excess and gaia behaving like a teenage girl
running roughshod over forests and cities not

caring how or what she does but merely rejoicing in her power
and we have done it we have added step by step and made
nature which was never a kindly mother
into a monstrous bitch but then we cannot blame

ourselves so we say it is merely summer and the drought
is natural and unfortunate and the heat that kills
has killed before though never killed so many
and so we lie ourselves into our hell