Necessity

the air of our quiet breathing the bower bounce on which to live outlasting all the blooms and bells of time sweet to inhale in fresh woods and on sunflower hills in an ever-changing dance come ruins of unseasonable change from bending heat from lightning strikes to flame the forests particle showers like white fire singed twinning thin air with a polluted cling overhanging smoke for cities in a gray-grind swim just an environmental blip say some not the change that threatens human kind this smoke field as vast as all the world's disorder what's salvageable? a will to cherish crystal air that skims our wings like a New Year's revel soulful comfort were we wiser once? before fire choked the passing clouds before the cauldron bubbled the air atmospheric anchor vessel of our calling imperiled necessity once floating idealism the changing sails of what we own