Today, I read

Of bodies long fallen

Into icy graves.

Undisturbed for decades,

Unseen until now.

 

Yet another by-effect

Of global warming

Lays bare the consequence

Of our ambition,

And folly.

 

The dire onslaught

Of climate change

Imperils our finite earth,

Opening it

To the inevitability of destruction.

 

And yet, it brings closure.

To families and descendants

Of the lost and perished.

Their cold fate finally known.

Markers to their resting place.

 

To the intrepid deceased,

And our dying world,

I can only say

May you, and we,

All rest in peace.

 

© 2017 S Phua