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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 fell swoop.

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.