"The house is on fire and our children are in!"

      "The house is on fire and our children are in!"

Painting by Dr Abe V Rotor

"The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The house is on fire."*

Many a story or song is about this topic:

     "The house is on fire." Light or tragic?

In our times, please take the latter stance,

     in case of fire, there's no safe distance.

Like in war, on all sides of the globe,

     socio-economic loss need not probe,

loss of peace and happiness - to doom -

     in chain reaction, it's ad infinitum.

"Ladybug, Ladybug, where have you been; your house is on fire,
and your children are in? **" - Traditional Children's rhyme

"What does it mean to die when you can live until the end
of the world?" - Anne Rice ~