ghosts of extinction

walking the frozen sphere
across the icey plenum
this plain of crystaline geometry

where night a nocturnal lantern
glows in jaded darknss
silver shades
of moonlight on snow

where arctic winds blow
the smells of man and machinery
out across the rippling shelf
the blue sheet of cool ocean
bends beneath the weight
of a chemical laced sky

the ice melts beneath the red aurora
the poles melt beneath a firey sun

where stalks the giant polar bear
there grows thin ice

all predators and the primordial
fleeing the ghosts of extinction

i fear for the polar bear
I fear for man
I fear for the earth