Future Voice

 

looking back

the signs were there

all around us

but

we did not understand that when

the seasons forgot to change

people would forget to love

 

exhausted by climbing money fed dreams

we could not hear

the last short breaths of small things

and although we knew the song of bees

grew quieter with every year

we had no time to listen

to dark voiced tear laced empty tales

 

I remember green

 

hedgerows alive with rustling creatures

 

and blue

the sky was blue

and sapphire sleeping salt filled oceans

carried wave borne whale voiced potent song

 

I remember blue

I remember

colours

your children will never see

 

all grey now

all shadow

all quiet

we sleep for there is nothing else to do

but endure the grating smoke filled air

 

lungs burned with breathing cannot sing

and anyway

there is no sky to sing of