“Burnt Orange”
By Derek Felix AKA DFlex
It happened so suddenly late one day
The sky turned smokey
Leaving the sun into disarray
It felt like a scene from hell
The disproportionate colors
Gave us a story to tell
I was mesmerized by the mystifying scene
As I walked, I paused to take a closer look
It wasn’t like anything I’d ever seen
The sun became burnt orange
A dark red that was out of place
I took shots of it without realizing
How bad the air would become in space
It didn’t dawn on me how much things would change
Until the next day, when it smelt like fire
As I walked outside, it was like a dark sky full of rage
It was so unforgiving in its haunting look
That I didn’t know how to react
All I knew was that the Canadian wildfires had us shook
For a while, all you saw was fog around
Along with an unnerving haze
That made you look down and frown
The sun turning burnt orange
Was a life lesson for us
It wasn’t a picture perfect postcard
But rather something worse in the universe
We aren’t always able to tell why
Nature can create chaos in an imperfect world
It’s almost like the mind-numbing sky cried
The toxic air only got worse each day
Making for a health hazard
To stay inside more over yesterday
Now, it’s returned to turn the moon dark red
I studied it last night and wondered
As I lay awake in bed
If only things were better up north
The smog is unrelenting
That can affect our areas down here
Rain is approaching by the weekend
That’ll cool things off and bring hope
Hopefully, it’ll help clear things up to an end
If this were art, I’d like burnt orange
Instead, we need it to disappear
And bring back the beautiful sky
While nicer colors reappear
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