: ::: ::::: :::::::::: :::::::::::::::::: :::::::::: ::::: ::: : Overfilled dams released khaki-brown rainwaters, while slate gray stormy winds brought down houses and lamp posts, helpless trees were uprooted, branches, sliced off their trunks greens became hues of dark olive-brown. red roofs floated, fire came in their midst
rain wasn't crystal clear as it used to be death's color became faded elephant gray lives were snatched as hands held tight, emotions died in those brown flood waters
2020 painted my country's canvas with the gloomiest shades of sepia
still, my people rise from inundation, gray lava and tremors, while they breathe, they live on, as before. ::::::: ::::: ::: :
Sally
Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan November 6, 2020
(January 2020 started with Covid 19, Taal Volcano eruption, earthquakes, a series of typhoons, etc. etc.)