Nature of Destruction
Published on Poetry Space in the United Kingdom in 2011
Opening her mouth to speak
Flowers wilted around her
Leaves crumpled by her breath
Natural hum of the bush
silenced
With an angry scowl on her face
she exhaled again
Bark stripped off trees
Left naked and lifeless
Droplets of sap
Dripped off limbs
Squinting to see if anything was left
Breathing outwardly in an attempt to finish the job
Colour sucked away from the landscape
Moisture evaporated the last chance of life
Energy was drained from what was left
The environment around her is now dead
Not quitting until everything has been lost
Crying by her self
Wondering why
She has to destroy everything
That comes near her
and now she’s alone
Richard James Bell © 6th January 2010