The Sky is Yellow
The sky is yellow, but not in a mid-summer day on the water full of joy sort of way.
The sky is yellow in an end of the world apocalyptic sort of way.
The sky is yellow and each breath fills your lungs with smoke.
Masks don't block the incoming particles.
Taste of wood-chips and burning embers
Burning eyes and throat
The sky is yellow
Is this the end of the world as we know it?
As far as I am concerned the world as we knew it ended in February
We are living in a new normal
Once in a life time is the new normal.
Once in a century pandemic
Once in a century fires
An election that will have a centuries worth of impacts on the rights of pretty much everyone who isn't a middle class straight cis gender able bodied white man
The sky is yellow and it feels like the world is ending.
It feels like the sky is falling
It feels like all of the worlds problems are coming to a head
We walk on pins and needles afraid of what others will think of us
afraid of what we may think of ourselves.
The sky is yellow and we have failed each other
Our world is burning as the media fuels the fire
dividing friends, families countries in ideological warfar
words have been weaponized to be divisive.
Ignorance and hate are glorified on the nightly news
It's the epitome of years of "us" vs "them"
The sky is yellow and no one is wins.
-C
