Twilight Zone

2021

A raucous sound echoes from above

Ravens circle a smoldering sky

Grass turned brown, withering under

The sun, a vengeful fiery eye

 

Ash floats with the breeze

Enough to taste the acrid earth

The land given a heated lashing

Scorched by wicked mirth

 

Such are the sights and sounds and smells

Of a world born anew

Not into light and love and laughter

But darkness impossible to eschew