Imagine Another Ice Age

Imagine another ice age, like the one in the recent past,

Which started very quickly and ended just as fast.

Within the length of a decade, the climate turned bitterly cold,

And people just had memories of the warmer weather of old.

Ice and snow abounded as the mercury plummeted down,

And people died in their thousands in every village and town.

The crops were unable to ripen in the worst of the ice age years,

Bringing mass starvation to add to the people’s fears.

No-one knows what caused it, though a volcano made it worse,

And many people alive then thought the earth was under a curse.

Then suddenly the climate changed to what we have today,

But there’s no guarantee how long it will remain this way.