Looking Downward

by

Diane Klammer

What does the sky see?
Canopies of green leaves twisting in the blowing wind
Sand kicking up like dust balls painting shadows
Shark fins chopping through vast blue waves
Rainbows and endless flower fields
Punctuated by butterflies and bees
Tigers stalking prey with glowing yellow eyes
Red lava pouring from volcanoes?

Doe the sky get upset hearing
Bloodcurdling screams from
War torn countries whose people
Bleed to exploding bombs
Or babies with distended bellies
Masses of people slowed to a crawl?

Does the sky long to be smaller?
Does it yearn to let go of heavy stars
Release gravity pulled galaxies
Drop the moon in a puddle
Become a fumaroles tunnel
Flow into an anthill
Or disappear with an electron?

Does the sky enjoy
Lifting up balloons and releasing them
Parting open like a curtain for jet planes
Feeling the tickle of a skydivers descent
Sharing its space with birds like the gliding eagle
Who plays it’s currents like a harp?

Does the sky mind to drop in
To the ocean’s blue and become one
Or to fade to grey and spit rain
Freeze while dropping hail and snow
Be sizzled by lightning
Burn with each sunsets new blaze

Why does the sky hold on to the earth
Cover it like a blanket
Allow us to breathe?
Does it view all our activities
That make us human with compassion
Or does it just hang over?

NEXT?
Why don't you look at Where are They?
by: Joyce Hemsley
from: Sunderland, England, UK

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