Katie Hudson - Sky

Have you observed the sky lately? <br />Plumes of tabacco grey, <br />The reds and purples have faded, <br />The blue has washed away. <br /> <br />We knew the colours were rusting; <br />Flaking coppery red, <br />If only we'd have acted, <br />Now morbid grey is left. <br /> <br />The crimson bled in rivers, <br />As if drained from hanging meat, <br />Until there remained weak orange, <br />The process would repeat. <br /> <br />For a week the clouds rained amber, <br />Globules of sunshine ray, <br />And now our sky is ashen: <br />A grubby, stale ashtray.<br /><br />Katie Hudson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sky-9/