GLOBAL WARMING for me and for my grandchildren.

EARTH. FIRE. WATER. HUMAN.

Earth. Earth.

The farmer is working... The wife is cooking...

The shepherd is watching...The teacher is teaching...The student is learning.

This is peaceful place.

This is a quiet peaceful place; life is simple year after year.

Some of their friends are across the river, some are right here.

Deep down in the earth there is war for a long time with grumbling sound,

And now the angry fight is erupted upward and shakes the ground.

It takes just a few minutes and the landscape is change forever,

Rubble, destruction, thousand of dead is bodies are everywhere.

Farmer? Is no more, the cooking wife, the shepherd are gone.

The injured are crying, more than a thousand and one.

The school is not there anymore, no children, old or young,

Nobody is studying, nobody is chanting a song!

The earth swallowed a whole village. Parents are childless,

Children without parents. Rich became poor, the poor is hopeless!

FIRE.FIRE.

In the middle of the forest the timber was dry.

The fire started suddenly, nobody knew why!

Like a hurricane, the wind was blowing one direction,

The killer smoke was getting thicker without salvation.

A few acre first, than two, than five and ten...

They tried to stop the fire, but now nobody can.

Thousand of healthy, old trees, hundreds of new homes stand no more,

Only a a charcoal skeleton shows, there is no branch, no roof and no door.

Heroes fight the raging fire from above and on the ground,

Trucks, hoses, shovels and helping hands are all around.

A little water from haven could help now, or tomorrow...

But today there is no future, no hope, only tears and sorrow.

WATER. WATER.

The sky was clear, painted blue and bright;

With little breeze the wind was light.

The ocean looks calm, the waves are rolling gently,

In the quiet bay the laud fishing birds were plenty.

But just in a short time the wind changed direction

Blowing stronger and stronger; ready for destruction.

Dark paint changed the colour of the sky...

The waves were jumping many stories high.

Heavy rain was pounding with thundering noise,

Still, you can hear the cry and the begging voice:

Nowhere to run! Nowhere to hide!

Must climb higher to escape the tide!

The water will destroy everything; the riverbed is not dry

Tragedy is everywhere, tomorrow more people will die!

HUMAN. HUMAN.

In the name of PEACE, they are killing the innocents!

In the name of FREEDOM, they are torture hostages!

In the name of LOVE, they destroy lives!

In the name of DEMOCRACY, they create anarchy!

What the EARTH didn't do...

Places the FIRE saved not long ago...

Where the raging WATER didn't go...

HUMAN found new reason for destruction.
How and who will do all the construction?

The bullets are flying,
The bombs are falling.

NO PLACE TO HIDE, NO PLACE TO RUN:
EARTH, FIRE, WATER OR A KILLING GUN?

Earth, Fire, Water, Human............
What will be next? I would like to know!

Please tell me good news; today my hope is very low.

A hopeful Leslie Vertes)