El Niño

Indescribable, Unfathomable

Warmth.

Simple and mindless.

Basking in the leisure of

relief.

Carried, effortlessly, by the 
breezing winds

You exist

only in

My absence.

Why should the World want 
to summon you?

You bring

Drought, Wildfires,
Destruction:

The stain you leave 
on

The world

That cannot handle your 
chaos.

The world:

A place I will not relinquish 
To a force that fights for 
change.

La Niña

Indescribable, Unfathomable

Cold.

Sensitive and agonizing.

Yearning for the asylum of

relief.

Trapped, suffocating, below
you

I exist

only in

Your absence.

True, that when free,
I summon

Drought, Wildfires,
Destruction:

The only mark I can make
on

The world

Your world, that will never be
rid of the scar I leave.

The world:

A place that will not know
“destruction” until you share — 
let me restore it.