The sky is white
and flat
It’s like we are all living in an aquarium and they forgot 
to turn the lights on
to turn the sky on
Our knowledge of how to breathe is slipping away
like the cloud that tripped and smeared they sky with buckets full 
of one single shade of white

Waiting under the white sky 
we stand wondering, 
our breaths caught in our throats, 
if they will turn on the sky 
and let us remember
how to convert oxygen 
into the carbon dioxide that is slowly destroying it 
and us