LEILA CORDEY

Blue

Dear homo sapiens of planet earth, I look down at the world with awakening eyes from the blue face I hide behind, from behind the darkening veil that obscures your view. I suppress the bludgeoning that’s beating me down –I’ve seen enough.

You call yourselves ‘wise’, but such supine ignorance breeds here in the face of environmental Armageddon. For your negligent minds, my heart palpitates; my omniscience calibrates your fate. You who compete to win, who care for nothing, materialistic protagonists, confirm only your own expiration date.

Homo sapiens, in your race to be the best you’ll raze yourselves from the earth.

A dawn of realisation. My clouded vision’s second sight. I watch smoke choke my sky, can no longer breathe. Celestial Mother, I’d caress you, protect you,