The Deep Blue Sky

Stormy clouds gather overhead

Obscuring the deep blue sky.

Giving a promise of rain to come,

It falls down to bathe the cracked earth;

Providing life for another year.

Fire covers the horizon

Obscuring the deep blue sky.

It returns nutrients to the soil,

Littering the blackened earth with green shoots;

Providing a clean slate for new life.

A dingo stands over her prey

Obscuring the deep blue sky.

She collects her prize and returns to her den,

Blood seeping into the earth as her young feast;

Providing life for the next generation.

The harsh angles of the slate grey buildings overshadow the world below

Obscuring the deep blue sky.

Factories belch acrid smoke into the once clean air,

Humanity smothering their future as the toxins leech into the fracturing earth;

Providing only destruction.