​RED HOT CAPE

 

here she comes - raging mad
piercing out - smokin' - her surround
wearing her cape of red-hot flames
ambers shooting - sweeping ground
she sees - not
whose in her path
burning
precious kingdoms - with her wrath
​running - running
she cares - not
searing - on blackening ground
the old - the sick
the youngest - life
no living found
​color now erased 
to shades of floating gray
chitchat - singing - pitter-patter
not to be today
​she hears - not
a faint whimpering cry
a crippled victim - fighting to survive
​instead - Mother sits smoldering
with no regret
shaming - blaming - displaying
global warming is a threat

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-Madeline Anne Zetye