SCARS LONG SINCE FORGOTTEN
Dipping and slipping
Comes the sun's ray
Pittering and pattering
Goes the steady rain
Plipping and plopping
Upon the forest green
Clicking and clocking
The happy insects scream
Rippling and rocking
The trees sway
Dancing in the steady breeze
The birds sing as the beat their wings
Butterflies prance And flit through the sky
Yet
Amid the forest rhythm
A foreign Sound
Of Anguish
And
Pain
Is screeching
Ticking and tocking
Ripping and tearing
Screaming and blaring
Pouting and shouting
Weeping and wailing
A giant metal contraption
Slashes a black streak
Across the bright blue sky
Dripping and slipping
Puttering and pattering
Dropping and plopping
Clicking and clocking
Rippling and rocking
The
Forest sounds
HALT
The sky cries out
Its’ blue dress stained
With black ink
The forest takes in breath
It doesn't let go
A metal bird spirals
Through the swaying trees
Clashing and slashing
Lightning wails
Drumming and booming
The thunder yells
Then
Silence
Complete
Absolute
Eerie
Death
The forest takes a breath
There is
No dripping and slipping
No pittering and pattering
No plipping and plopping
No clicking and clocking
Not rippling and rocking
Just
The
Silent
Presence
Of
Death
Then slowly
Like a sorrowful melody
The rain rolls on
Proceeding without a simple thought
Of that metal bird
But a scar in the forest rain
Is all it seems to them
Dipping and slipping
Comes the sun's rays
Pittering and pattering
Goes the steady rain
Plipping and plopping
Upon the forest green
Clicking and clocking
The happy insects scream
Rippling and rocking
The trees sway
Dancing in the steady breeze
The birds sing as the beat their wings
Butterflies prance
And flit through the sky
The Forest resumes
The scar, long since forgotten.