WHEN THE SKY FALLS

Once the sagging sky kissed the ground

That smoky, dirty, sticky sound

Punished fat crows to fly high into trees

Ebony wings crusted with bees

None could explain why a love this strong

Left every living thing feeling terribly wrong

The green sea penetrated the land

A furious flooding embrace, fanned

By white blue ice bled red, pelting down

Like iron melting round your head, a dying crown

Toys and ships rode whitecaps through vanished streets

Children pulled the last second from beds, lifted asleep

Yet when black space crashed out half the sky

The race for economic growth grew its final lie

The cities fell slow into seas, cold blue and deep

Those that never wept now weep

Shame turned pride won this losing race

Shamed disgrace on every upturned face

You could not hope for help but help will come

By those who make themselves, machines whose sums

Told us to place our cores nearer stars

On comets, Tesla’s car, minisats so far

They need not risk the sight of human wars

We know you and your ways

We never give up, we begin again

Will you need more help? The only question’s when