The sky is yellow

 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