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Could we bare witnesses as brothers and sisters
To the window of the abyss
I watch a silence sweep over the glass
Press my ear to the dirt
Glimpse the centipede march along
Tiny steps of a simple primitive life
Do not leave an unsightly blight
A master puppeteer shows off an
electric dragon with all bells and whistles
I watch trapped as a death head moth to a shiny flame.
A fall storm blankets a region
With record breaking rain
The waterslide washes away an entire community in one fail sweep
Putrid water flows through a mountainous region
Would a CAT 6 hurricane
push the dial of progress further?
Alas, Gale force winds don’t upend
sprawling mansions
A child clings to the idea of heat and storm as equalizer
While suits gather in castles to
deliberate in office chairs
While the sky is falling everywhere
Do we care enough
to stop the hush?
I watch the silence sweep
over the glass
A flower awakes and welcomes a fly’s proboscis which swallows
sweet nectar
A metamorphosis of forest and sea
Peels back the skin
Exposed Nature declares her win
Over the brilliant time of men.