Let’s Abandon A Fire

Again, we choke the Earth.

The sun through a smoky sky | Picture by Author — Milwaukee, WI.

I puff some smokes
The sky responds
The siren sounds
The city chokes

I inhale air, fresh life
A memory, times unnoticed
A warmth, under the red sun
A pity, o what have we done?

I laugh under my mask
Maybe that was a cough
Maybe history is repeating
Maybe this too shall pass

I whisper a prayer
Are our p…