In a lemon zest field of goldenrod and lavender, where butterflies frolic in calm breezes on a warm springtime afternoon and shade trees cool the day with outstretched arms of nature,
an aphonic cloud approaches, menacing in proportions, clinging to a frightened sky Swirling leaves and mingled debris like shrapnel of days long gone
Beneath life ceases to exist as frayed discolored blooms litter the now vacant wasteland and roots exposed on a parched desolate earth burn in umber tinted weepings, coughing of dust bowl deliveries, while cataclysmic calamities bring forth the wrath of the end
And as the cloud finally passes, dissipating in a mist of forgotten fears making its way to a darker universe now waiting on the other side of hope,
sunlight returns from pale blue skies slowly breathing, exhaling the past, inhaling the future… a lone butterfly appears fluttering amidst tiny green sprouts peeking through a new born soil *and so it begins…again