The sun-bleached earth bursts into flame,
As lightning forks across the sky;
A stolen gift for us to try,
A burning life that we could tame.
 
But once we gave this gift a name,
We blinked the impacts from our eye;
The sun-bleached earth bursts into flame,
As lightning forks across the sky.
 
And as this heat begins to maim,
We turn and ask our shadows why
Then let out a collective sigh;
As guilty fingers shift the blame,
The sun-bleached earth bursts into flame
A lightning-caused wildfire burns in Alberta, Canada (Photo Credit: The Government of Alberta).
This is a Rondel, inspired by recent research which has found that climate change is increasing