Open-mouthed

Open-mouthed

Agape with wonder

Close it before you choke

Dry thunder lightning strike

Split the world asunder

Oxygen is food

For the inferno

Feed the beast

With every breath

The pain grows stronger

Prisoners of dystopia

Empty of hope

Exposed to the euphoria

Of the insatiable

An inhuman appetite

Never sated

Until doused in blood

Soaked in sky fall

Heavy with the hope

Of cloudburst

As skeletal trees dance

The black bottom

In crop tops

Think of the children first

Memories can be reclaimed

The wildness tamed,

From the ashes

Of old lives

Will come determination

To survive.