Our World is on Fire!

                                                  Our World is on Fire!

"Our house is on fire and our children are in!"

Paintings by Dr Abe V Rotor

"The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Chain Reaction Armageddon"*

Many a story or song is about this topic:

     "The house is on fire." Light or tragic;

In our times, please take the latter stance,

     in case of fire, there's no safe distance.

Like in war, on all sides of the globe,

     socio-economic loss need not probe,

loss of peace and happiness - to doom -

     in chain reaction, it's ad infinitum.

"Ladybug, Ladybug, where have you been; your house is on fire, 

and your children are in? **" - Traditional Children's rhyme

"What does it mean to die when you can live until the end 

of the world?" - Anne Rice

 

Our World on Fire

    Sunset, a time for retreat and prayer,

 like sunrise, will be missed forever;

too soon for our planet's life span, 

designed in a system with the sun.

"Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest 

pastime." - David Mitchell

 

Our World in Ashes 

     The Phoenix Bird rises from its ashes is a story,

    from ancient legend to the level of philosophy,

  a paradox of building and destroying beauty -

What then is posterity, what is immortality? 

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, 

I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther

 

Our Dead Planet

  No, it's no longer a blue planet we once knew;

beautiful, peaceful, like blue diamond's glow.

Where have all the wonderful creatures gone,

    and the proud heritage and monuments of man?

"When I was younger I wish I'd known that what often seemed to be the 'end of the world' often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience!" - Annie Lennox

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* Armageddon refers to the prophesied final, calamitous battle between good and evil forces, originating from the Book of Revelation, signifying a cataclysmic end-of-the-world scenario. A chain reaction refers to a process in which neutrons released in fission produce an additional fission in at least one further nucleus. This nucleus in turn produces neutrons, and the process repeats. The process may be controlled (nuclear power) or uncontrolled (nuclear weapons). Internet 

** Traditional English nursery rhyme. It dates back to at least 1744, about an insect, 28-spotted ladybug beetle, (Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata or H. vigintioctomaculata), which survived a fire and got its characteristic markings - 28 black spots all over its beautiful orange-red body. On the dark side, this nursery rhyme is a warning to us all, hence the essence and urgent call of this article.