Drought

Today like tremors having broken a boulder free sending it toppling from a cliff in the clutches of gravity plunging toward the ground encountering my head on its way down splitting open my skull as a geode struck with a hammer exposing my brain the realization I no longer care about anything anywhere crushed me I am a river run dry from lack of rain revealing for the first time in over a century the warped wooden skeletons of steamships the rusting remnants of vehicles ossuaries for their occupants' bones fish flopping as they asphyxiate finally falling still and lifeless in the mud which hardens and cracks like concrete in the hellish heat of the searing sun as you bear silent witness from the shaded shore