Shadowlands

The ever grey clouds gather

Each day the shadows grow

Over a sickly dwelling

The sun faded long ago

Don’t ask if it will shine again

Or where the birds did go

Distant songs carried by the wind

They faded long ago

Longing for companionship

On this dystopian plateau

A reminder of the memory

That faded long ago

The verdant forests our charcoaled mess; the seas our poisoned swell

Stripped of every life and love to be left alone by their quell

Our grey array of misery; no colours or hue around

Silence ever deafening; here we were always bound

You see how we will pay the price

We are our own worst enemy

Humans of no humanity

Ending what was, so long ago