Polar bears are among the species most vulnerable to the effects of Global Warming

My emotional response on reading these articles is expressed in the following poem.

From ice to ice

he swims,

the great strong bear,

a white-hot, living ember

in the cold Arctic Sea.

Ancient and unrivaled,

most powerful,

the very pinnacle

of living things

in a frozen land.

What does he feel

when searching,

the ice, where is the ice?

here last year, or maybe years before,

does he remember?

Instinct drives him

forward through the water,

the big heart beats more weakly,

the hottest thing for miles, slowly cools,

and slips beneath the waves.

I wonder, does he panic

in the water, like I would,

or does he tire and fall asleep

dreaming seals and ice, not knowing

as all the Arctic slowly melts away.