Watching The World Unfold

Oh what a mess we've made of our world!

 

Watching the world unfold like a large and pee-stained feather comforter,

the cost of dry-cleaning versus the garbage heap is weighed but lost

in the ambiguity of the mess we've made. And who among us are content 

to lie in our beds unaffected by the masses shedding skin cells and reveling 

in the smells of life while disparaging the decay and stench of modern living?

 

The sky above me opens wide and endless on the prairie horizon.

Unsurprisingly, never as flat to a flatlander as is in myths of the uninitiated.

Within the damp and earthy depths of a woodland copse life surges forth 

from deep ravines and willowed waterways where whispering poplars 

rub shoulders with towering cottonwoods standing sentinel to rock studded 

landscapes forged in grasslands and sod.

 

Here, it almost possible to forget the human condition. Almost easy to 

flirt with prosaic promises coyly fluttering in the proconsul lashes of 

purchasable politicians. That is, until I drive down the numerical streets and

 alphabetical avenues of the city of my birth, witnessing gangland destruction

 destroying the once pastoral beauty of my beloved Saskatoon, 

now spinning in a hip-hopped choreography of what was and is and 

who the hell knows what will be... then concepts of freedom collapse 

into piles of dissipation and our large and pee-stained feather comforters 

of existence become the murder weapon beneath which we are all smothered.

 

Watching the sky unfold and open above me, it's wide and mawing mouth

belches out encoded messages cloaked in clouds and drifting on the smoke

of factories and potash mines. I watch the poisoned mists of fate float on

the four winds that eventually become one, while the sun brands the ugly truth into

the stinking fabric of our messy beds; the ones we made and now lie in, mummified and

 grinning like idiots unaware we are dying ... every single one of us.

Author's Note

Oh, the mess we've made!

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

messages cloaked in clouds... Nice write.

[felioness]

Thank you.

[Sami Khalil]

You are welcome .