Leaves dancing wind chimes
Chickens mutter morning curiosity
Clear blue skies
No monsoon return this season
Sweats abated
Dragonflies perform joint manoeuvres
Strange season this
Birds sing normal, machine turned off
suffering march on hospitals over borders
In our island prison luxury of petty concern chants its mantras
Couped humans stampede open gates
overcrowded disturbance of nature’s peace
Commerce resumes its barking at the gate
Pigeons continue life’s song
On and on and on and on
Earth breaths easier
Glimpse what we have lost
Awakening from a dream
going back to sleep
Brooding creatures of endless hunger pacing inside cells
Resenting freedoms limits plotting revenge
Lessons unlearnt
Nature must submit!
It has been decreed
But time is on her side
Heat’s tide is rising relentlessly
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