Equipped wingspan
By Celeste J
Published 15 June 2022
The rippled wings,
Of a blood-stained monarch
With a non-existent trill
Seasonal wings turn to a grey loft of lead,
As birds do, they fly
Sky commemorates a darkened ash,
Sun condemned by darkened sky
Insensitive to the light of an isolated wingspan
Imagine fire in autumn only orange leaves cradle earth
Metamorphosis of a euphoric duration
Two to six weeks of an ending journey
The rise of the wings turns to an eternity
Equipped with a swift ensemble of cries
It dies on a burning globe
Crescent on a Eucalyptus tree
It moulds to the fitting fate
Whilst precariously dried fields run beige.
Will we ever go back to a time
When monarchs filed a setting sky of spring?