#5 Song of Night, Book 3

Song of Night, book 3 - Our Living Planet Suffers from Global Warming and Viral Endemics

A ray of light shines upon the waste land in the dark

That may seem to come from a source afar

The darkness will be dark

And the ray of light may appear to be a thin and vulnerable path

But any dark night will pass and turn into the brightly shining morn

Stars flicker in the night

Those starlight will not be strong enough to warm the heart of mankind

But the moon shall soon rise, sending refreshing light to the Earth

That light will warm up the planet

And one day the sun of dawn shall illuminate terra firma

Humans shall experience many hardships during the night

Thick woodlands shall cover Siberia

In the jungles of the Amazon, Indonesia and Africa

Water shall one day vanish and rain stop falling

The trees burned by the scorching sun

Forests wiped out and replaced by desert

It will come as a sudden and unexpected change for the people

Those who lived in the woods will lose their source of food

Water

And may perish from the heat

It will be difficult to prepare for sudden desertification

Meanwhile

The ices of Siberia shall melt away, flourishing into woodlands

A canal shall be made north of the Yangtze in China

Turning regions that had been laid to waste

To rich farmlands

Southern Europe, too, shall see effects similar to desertification

With areas with regular rainfall that had been producing grape

Unable to harvest food and turning into wastelands

The Mediterranean coast

Of Portugal, Spain, Crete and Mediterranean islands, even Greece

Will all suffer from such trends

Bulgaria and Romania could see the same fate

Northern Europe will see warmer climate

Brightening up the local lifestyle

The ices of Greenland could melt away

Allowing some vegetation to grow

But woodlands in southern Canada and the United States

Due to the climate change

Suddenly turn into deserts or plains

In American

Its rich soils will no longer be suitable for growing crops

Causing great pain

The loss of topsoil due to the overuse of fertilizers may occur

Resulting in poor harvests

The Earth will follow the trend of global warming

And cause the world to be in utter chaos caused by climate shift

In Japan, Hokkaido will become warm

And the southern islands will be too hot to live in

But it will not become completely desertified

In the nation, the northeastern areas and Hokkaido

Could become suitable land for rice paddies

In the south, sweet potatoes and kidney beans—crops that better withstand aridness

Such crops will be harvested

But for the Japanese

These climate changes will not devastate their lifestyles

Allowing them to adapt

Tokyo, too, could be come drier than it is now

Even the snowcap atop Mount Fuji will melt away sooner than it does now

Melting all the way to the top in the summer

The changes that the planet will see is not only about temperature

Volcanoes will become active, causing eruptions and earthquakes across the land

When tremors occur frequently

Those living on Earth may feel the land will not cease to shake

And become anxious

In some areas, it may cause panics

It will even affect areas outside the Ring-of-Fire where earthquakes are commonplace

Volcanos will erupt in Italy

And Africa, too, will see similar tectonic activities

The planet is not just a stable ball of crust

Man shall realize

The Earth is alive beneath terra firma

With viscous magma swirling beneath

Occasionally shooting through volcanic craters

Pushing steam high up into the atmosphere

Throwing up chunks of metal

And spewing massive heat and lava

Devastating everything in its path, humans shall witness

What the planet was when it was first born

Is what mankind will sense from the sight

The sky will scorch bright red

Lava will gush out with a rumble

Steam and heat will shoot up into the sky with immense energy

Such shall occur on Mount Kilimanjaro and other places in Africa

It will allow

Mankind to feel that they are witnessing the planet’s birth

For television and movies

Will allow all people of the world to see such dynamic sight of the planet

Humans have lived on Earth

Under the impression that terra firma is stationary

Erecting civilizations atop it

However, now

Man will see how the lands tremble

And even those who live away from earthquakes and volcanos

Will cower in terror over the sights they witness through TV

That

Will send the mentality of modern humans to that of primitive men

The foundations of human life

Stands on the planet’s crust that appears firm and stable

But when that shakes

People will have no choice but to think, what is human life?

They are merely organisms living on a planet that spews out red lava

Mankind shall once again realize

Volcanic eruptions and tremors

Are simply the Earth claiming that it is alive

Atop that living planet

Are the live of humans

Is all you have to understand from it

You are not the only living beings

As the planet, too, is alive

And flourishes with an infinite number of creatures

All coexist

Allowing harmony between them and the Earth

But neglecting such thought, mankind, since the 19th century

Has established a scientific civilization upon the planet

Massive concrete buildings lining the lands

Various factories in place

And machines and items being created with magnificent productivity

They are all truly convenient

And, in some ways, do make human life richer

But in the universe, animals with high intelligence other than humans

Certainly exist

Various organisms shapes the universe

And together form glorious harmony

Humans

Are overconfident of their intelligence limited by three-dimensional space

Establishing civilizations atop it

Along with their understanding of life and space

However

When faced with the grotesque nature of the planet as a living being

Mankind will be forced to think it over

But that is not the end of the world

Nor the Earth

Nor human life as we know it

But how every being lives

And their harmony is what allows the planet and man to stay alive

Is what you must realize

And another trial you must face

Is how mankind will face chaos, unable to maintain their lifestyles and order

And become helpless in preventing numerous diseases

They may be illnesses that no one knew about

Or well-known sicknesses

That once again will spread

In areas where forests turned to desert

Water will vanish and people will not have enough to drink

Spreading diseases through people forced to drink unclean water

Why do illnesses spread amongst people?

That is because man

They, too, are living beings

That are affected by small changes in climate or irregularities

And easily taken over by sicknesses that cannot be cured

And die

Is what they must realize

Human life

May seem like it can be controlled by medicine

But that is only under conditions mankind has imagined

Man, through knowledge they dubbed science

Created the 20th century civilization

And, to some extent, live comfortably

But that is a rare occurrence

That continues on only when certain factors are in balance

As the climate or anything keeping the balance crumbles somewhere

The extent of human knowledge

And how people will be unable to deal with the changes will become apparent

And

How frail the human body is

Is another thing man must learn

Antibiotics and other medicines that have been developed

Will prevent people from being infected

You may think

But the human body is not something that can be controlled by man’s understanding of it

It is something that could flourish beautifully under the liveliness of the universe

And be able to express strong power onto the body on some days

But also die by being infected as part of the universe’s harmony

Man sees their lives

As something they can extend, alter

Or control, you may think

But that is untrue

Even something like temperature

At 40 or 45 degrees, is enough to make surviving hard

Just 5 or 10 degrees hotter

Can make it hard for the living being humans are trapped inside to survive

Yet you are under the illusion that you have the power to do anything

Thus, something prehistoric animals experienced

Volcanic explosions, earthquakes, the grotesque nature of the Earth—witnessing that

Mankind must realize its limits as living organisms

And how they live within the harmony of life

Once again

Humans will find it very arduous

But even if it is

How man is life thriving in the universe

And live together with organisms across space

Is something they will not understand

When the Earth trembles

Mankind will realize how small their existence is

And virus, bacteria and other things you thought you could control

Will once again haunt human life

The living body

Can be infected with other living beings, such as pathogens

How humans are the only ones exempt from that

And continue to live in comfort, is not how it should be

Why has such a grueling night been prepared

That, as I have said before,

Is for mankind to seek the light afar

And keep walking toward it

The thin trail of light

Is the hope for life for those walking beyond the darkness

As the thread of light keeps pulling you forward

The light will naturally get stronger

It will become more evident which path to take

Allowing you to make clear progress

Death will become a significant theme for those living the new era

What is death

With the planet riddled with corpses

Many shall lose their loved ones and close ones

Right then

People will question the difference between living and dead

The significance of life and death

For those living on terra firma

Death is an eternal farewell

Where the material body will decompose and enter the soil

But for those who have passed onto the other side

Death does not exist

Those who died on Earth will return to the heavens

And continue to live their own lives

That life will not be the same as that on Earth

As some memories will be lost while encountering different people

But how you must live seeking the way of light

That path itself

Is merely a continuation of you life style on this planet

Life is given to all people so that they shall head toward the light

We in the heavens are given life for the same reason

All life in this universe

Is a speck of light

It is not a sun

But a true source of light

Heading for light itself

Mankind will become that light

You are given life on Earth and in the heavens

So that you shall return to the light

Even the Sun will die as a star

And return to the light as a pure form of energy

Before the coming of dawn

Mankind may experience such an era of suffering

But that pain does not exist without a reason

It is so that all things living

Both humans and other creatures

Shall march towards the light

And eventually return to the light as a pure form of energy