No Rain

climate change run amuck

No Rain

{n 2025, the world ended
With the collapse
Of the worldwide climate system

Monster storms of the century
devastated half the world

But the other half of the world
Had no rain or snow
For almost a whole year
The once green grass was dying


Crops failed everywhere
And baked in the unrelenting
Blast wave furnace-like heat
Heatwave after heatwave


Military coups took place
Fascism re-emerged
The public demanded action
The politicians played
The blame game

With the collapse of trade
And travel restrictions
People stayed home
Making do the best they could

Home-grown gardens
Proliferated

Feudal townships grew
As people walled themselves off
To save their communities

The rich build underground cities
While the poor starved
And civilization crumbled

Wild life proliferated
As did neo-savage
cannibal gangs

By the year 2030
It was all over
And the rains
Never came out west



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Make the title of your static item No Rain and include the following line somewhere in your story or poem, bolded -

The once green grass was dying.

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