Dark skies

Dark skies and a gentle breeze

But earlier the news about all of the ecological gloom

Took me into the deepest place of fear

While surely we have to face the painful truth

I find it sad when the present moment

Becomes the sacrifice

Reading through some other posts

I read about the confusion, sorrow and aloneness

That accompanies a sudden death

Made even harder by all of this

Social distance

Then my soul asks of me

Please be with me

Bring your attention in

And yet there is this sorrow

Over so many things

Dark skies

Are also accompanied by the gentle

Warble of magpies

Who still sing their songs of praise

Even as the current intractable gloom

Over global climate change

Echoes through my personal stratosphere

Earlier I read some messages of love from you

I totally forgot

Which led me to question

Did I re-write history

Due to my own fractured perceptual template

God knows

But never the less I felt these inner rivers flow

Of longing and regret

Realising perhaps all along

There was more love for me out there

Than I had the capacity to recognise

Then