End of Gray
(sorry, here be, might be, a rant)

A gray day

Did you notice
Maybe you walked through
The lack
Of sun
Of blue
Well
By unnoticing

Normal enough

After all
We’ll have these back
The sun and
Blue
Won’t we
We also have
Perfected images
Machined and framed
And
Perched
Somewhere

Or we move our digits
Over
Surfaces of phones
Or manipulate
Tablet or
Desktop screens
Or in
Our cars
Or on still
More
Shiny and electric
Screens
(still more)

Actual
Sun
And blue
Will be back
Sure as seasons
Until
We learn to crack the Earth and
Do it
For profit somehow
Or in another madness
Say
Because we can
Which
Like nanites and A-I

Override the fears
We
Did not
Have the time or chance
To be informed
To have
Or
(much less)

Choose

C L Couch


Photo by Liam Hunter on Unsplash 
Found deep in the woods with no explanation.
[photographer’s caption, adding a period]