As Darkness Descends
As darkness descends,
Bound for perpetual night,
Eight billion groans, moans and laughs
Adorn its progress.
Obliviously distracted
And living in denial
As the concrete and mud
Steal the very breath
In a slow motion crash
Equipped with no brake or airbag;
Flicking through,
Chortling
At the frivolous,
As the life
Is squeezed
Out of the land.
Opher – 8.4.2018
This is great.
Thank you Sadah.
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Sadah – that sounds good – tell me more!
Hey Opher, Namaste 🙂
The billowing black-thing in the photograph, it is definitely alive! Its ugly presence is almost palpable
Dark moody and menacing…one wonders what Gaia would write if she had chance?
‘Chortling’ – is a great word: to laugh in a ‘gleeful’ way. Love it!
Good work dude. Keep it coming!
Namaste 🙂
DN
Gaia features in my new Sci-fi book. Unfortunately it is a new religion – a tool of the state. Cheers Dewin.
Excellent…I love how antiquity sits so comfortably with the future 🙂
How is the editing/rewriting going thus far? I was impressed at the rapidity of your creation! You’ve still got it.
Cheers dude. Namaste 🙂
DN
This evening I passed through halfway of the redraft now page 140 out of 257.
I have so far added four thousand words and smoothed out inconsistencies, embellished characters and got it flowing better. My sister arrives tomorrow for a week so work will have to stop. No problems though. It will be through soon enough and I will start the third write!
You wouldn’t be thinking of Kīlauea would you? Life’s sure gettin’ squeezed out of THAT bit of earth! Scary.
No Cheryl – I was thinking more of what we are doing all over the planet. That’s even scarier.
It’s terrifying how we’re destroying this amazing planet.
It is the speed of the destruction that is most frightening.
Yeah it’s terrifying how fast we’re destroying everything.
The question is – ‘How do we stop them???’
🙁
Cheers Raili