Perfectly Pink Skies
- Kate Atkinson
- Dec 2, 2018
- 1 min read
perfectly pink skies
i’m looking at
through rose tinted glasses
perfectly pink skies
fade fade fade
to gray
to dark gray to
black
perfectly pink skies
are no longer.
black skies
pour down hard
rain on pink evenings
i turn up the tv
the tin roof rattles
the beach day
now a gumboot day
rain on pink evenings
on the second day of summer
on the second day of december
rain on pink evenings
lasts until the
perfectly pink skies
are no longer.
it’s dark
and the rain leaves
as fast as it came
it’s dark
the pink skies gone again
until tomorrow night
it's dark
so eerily dark
cloud cover above
perfectly pink skies
always come back again
rain on pink evenings
always disappears
it’s dark
darkness passes
perfectly pink skies return
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