Bellwether

- anything that indicates future trends; an omen

A presaging
This indication of future calamity
Here already
Knocking at the door,
Tapping at the lock.

A fury of fires
A fright of floods
Are all the children in their beds
Its past eight o’clock?

Waves relentlessly
Breaking down coastlines
The sea inexorably taking back the land.
Cold as a mother.

Oh, this is an omen
Of what is to come
The canary in the coalmine.

Embattled ecologies,
Sing their sweet soft ditties
Disappearing faster than the stars at dawn.

Climate change,
A trendsetter
Steps inside in her sexy leather boots

A fickle dame,
Her garnet ring gleams
Her eyes sparkle.

Bellwether,

She heralds

Danger.

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