Hi,
Less than a week ago, I was writing about the devastating effects of fire; and today I was watching horrific scenes of the rampant destruction in Portugal that has been an unfolding story since the weekend.
I can’t believe how many awful reports are in the news this month, or the number of people who have died in sickening circumstances!
None of us really appreciate how fleeting this life is, do we – or how our obsession with position and possessions is all very pointless…?
Smell Move Umbrella Calculation Housing Career Poetry Monster Herd
My nose, full – the smell
Of imaginary smoke
Taunting me from images
I can’t expel.
It’s hard to move past
Searing realisation:
That nature is formidable,
Not some nurturing umbrella.
Fire works outwith
Our human calculation
(We are mere scared animals, all;
Irrespective of housing or career)
And again, I turn to poetry
To look a monster in the face,
Herd stampeding thoughts
Into some cohesive whole;
Whilst elsewhere humans
Pick through precious ashes –
Dignity charred
But outrage well fuelled.
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