An absence of birdsong

Red skies at morning

Sailors take warning

Thick dust bunny clouds☁☁

Racing the hesitating sun🌅🌅

They leave it in the dust



Uprising cumulonimbus towers

Clearly indicating showers

To drown all the growing flowers🌹🌹

And flood the ground with their power



Wind blowing from the east

Cold and warm air mingling


Like ghosts dueling with the living

The air feels fuzzy and strange

Something evil is coming



Curling leaves and swelling wood

The trees can feel it too🎍🎍

It’s in their roots and in my blood

Quickly pushing its way through

This is not good

A storm is beginning to stew🌩🌩



Rain announces its arrival🌧🌧

On pitter patter stomp stomp feet

Whispering gently from the sky

Before knocking loudly at the window

Begging to come in, OH WON’T YOU LET ME IN

Flooding my doorstep with darkness

Eyes open



Lightning volleys down from the sky

Searing my eyes with its image

It scrapes its long fingers down my window

What is light and what is dark?🎇🎇

My lungs are being crushed from the inside

I am falling I am falling

Let the currents take me

Eyes shut😣😣



Silence

Beautiful unknowing

No harsh flashing

The clouds are receding☁☁

Trees not reaching for me🎄🎄

No more water between my fingertips

No more wondering what I might lose

Welcoming the cool shiver and soft echoing ripples🎆🎆

I drift back into dreamland into darkness into night😊😊