Ugly Summer
The flowers welt,
and the bees die.
The trees wither,
but so does summer.
Detroit’s summer
killed everything.
I hated that heat.
Everything died,
and as much as I
didn’t want things
to live, touch me,
but they felt like
me- and I felt like
all of them, dying.
Trying to live, and
suffering in their
home that doesn’t
want them anymore.
I feel like death.
But they all do too.
Everything does.
And now I see and
I don’t mind them
so much.
This poem is about:
Our world