When Heat Overtakes Life

Do you crave for the sun too, when cold is seeping through your body, and you can neither run from it nor hide from it? When every part of your body has started going numb, and you aren't even aware of the battle that your inner biology is going through to prevent that, do you crave for the ray of light that brings warmth along with it? Well, we sure did. And boy, did our wish come true; rather someone went a little too overboard with our wish.
It was a few decades ago, when scientists realised that the extent of global warming has taken an exponential rate of growth, and warned the world administration about it, suggesting safety measures. But while most of the countries were not able to successfully execute the safety measures, some spent their time in denying that global warming exists (no jokes there). And finally everything went really well. By the way, did I mention that the world population is below ten thousands now? No? Well did I mention that all of us, champs of our civilization, are living in an artificially created dome, because the air outside is too hot to breathe and the temperature outside is approximately eighty degree Celsius? No? Oh maybe I forgot. Well, except these 'minor' problems, everything's great!
Inside this dome, the condition isn't as great as outside, but I guess it's acceptable. And considering that there isn't really any other option, I believe I can *reluctantly* accept this. Here, the temperature is maintained (if you consider fourty degrees Celsius as maintained)  by air conditioners working twenty four hours. Between everything that went wrong, I guess glorification of solar energy was the only one that went right. At least we have twenty four hour electricity supply in our so-called houses, something which we did not have in our once-existing cities (Yeah! I told you everything is great). The water supply is, what should I say; not really good but much better than what you could expect in these great times. I don't know about the source of this water, but when I asked a few of the officials, I was advised to not ask or I might prefer dying than drinking the water. Wonder why they said that?
Anyways, all of us have been assigned duties and we are trying to sustain this small kingdom, with no king. We all know that eventually we are going to die, and that this dome, the only thing protecting us from scorching heat and painful deaths, is not going to work for long. Still we want to prolong our survival (I would have used the word suffering). I know that as much as we are the most intelligent of the species, we are very foolish. We are the only species, which knows so much that we cannot agree on what to act upon. But our survival instinct that is making us thrive at a time where it is completely pointless to try, is one of the times when I feel that being foolish is not always the worst way to be.
I spend most of my time doing different jobs. But when I am resting on my bunk bed, I often zone out. I reach a world, where regular winters are a thing, and summers are beautiful. A world where I and my family are sitting on the terrace at the dawn, and looking at the beauty of a sunrise, something that we haven't seen in a while. A world where I am running to catch my friends in the fields, while rain drops are falling on my body and water in small puddles is getting spilled as I am stepping in them. A world where I am trying to climb a mango tree and continuously failing, thus resorting to throwing stones and making mangoes fall. A world where life is flourishing, flora and fauna are both in abundance, and we are a part of it, a part of the beauty of nature.
The nature, that provided our ancestors with everything and asked for nothing but respect in return; that same nature has put us in our place when we failed to acknowledge what it was going through. I know we could have done more. I know that it is easy to blame it on the authorities, but blaming them does not change the fact that at some point of time, we all could have done more. In the little empty space that we had in the front of our house, we could have grown a few plants instead of keeping trash there. When some guys came to cut the tree in our neighborhood to make an apartment, we could have reported it before they could do it. There is more, that we all could have done. And we have to let the guilt remind us to do better the next time. I don't believe we will get our next time, but I hope that if a civilization succeeds us, they read this. I hope that they read this, so they do not repeat what we did; starting a fight with nature.

We stared in the eyes of death.
We are the Earthlings that are left.
We survived but pain we felt,
when we were witnessing life's theft.
What remains for us outside?
What remains in the light except dark?
Shall we even bother to raise a fire
from the ashes when there is no spark?
We were the most selfish beings,
this world had to bear our weights.
But not anymore shall it take,
for it is time to meet our fates.
Reign is over, and nature takes control.
It's over now, it's time for our fall.
Human civilization will not be forgotten.
It's a tyranny that ended on nature's call.