Austere

Luminous sun touches the hair of a girl
Looking in a mirror and she sees herself
As she watches a girl covered in earth and ground
And the bleeding ground is writhing ‘round

The scene is overlooked by spectators and sky
Ominous clouds inspect the scene below
And down falls their capricious content from high
And upon the heads and minds of these onlookers

Signs of the effect of the fickle rain
Like alcohol flowing through their pensive blood
Which flows from their flooded hearts and intoxicates brains
Atrocious fluid now shrouding their thoughts

Onlookers now cursed by binding fluids and tainted rain
As the society of watchful and controlled eyes views
The young girl fighting through ground’s assault in pain
All obscured by preconceived ideals and illogical norms

Yet still sprouts a young sapling from below
The sun which touched the girl touches green
And rises forth in offense to the sky
And hence ceases that abhorrent flow, sky now serene

As nature again has healed the numerous
And the girl covered in earth sees the sights
Now steady and controlled she nods
And her image is now clear and gorgeous

The earth and ground, hence, were not impairing
Nor the shrouded minds of onlookers
Nor the bleeding sores soil caused in her skin
Nor the harrowing rain, poison bearing

But the omission of Mother Earth as a potent savior
As herbaceous growth hath saved the scene
And if only our earth could ever dream to be
As thoughtful and pensive and as perfectly serene

For the plant grows and feeds and feels
As the girl grows and feeds and feels
As the spectators grow and feed and feel
Yet these could not ever dream to be so real