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A Summer's Day

Remember December - The Day Australia Burned.

By a.a.gallagherPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
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A Summer's Day
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Those fires of a Summer Day are but sombre takes as they beat in memories of affray, forever pierced, lodged in minds and hearts of men; become blanketed thoughts of a scorched childhood. Remember December, forget not the sound of fire as train-like it roars downhill; its will, mission to destroy and kill. Fire unstopped in its violent path, becomes a relentless living, wrath-filled entity that burns all that obstructs leaving only memories of what was. Bigger than man earth fights back. Becomes a force, living, breathing, growing, consuming oxygen, foliage and fauna sweeping life to ash. Remember December and the ignorance of science decriers, those soothsayers of non-belief, fearlessly blinkered old men. The reality of man and his dollar downfall. A conspiracy they said but really economic piracy of our land, at best. Read the science and remember the fires fed by ignorance, those fires of once beautiful Summer days, the heat and homelessness of people now untethered and animals headed for extinction; joyless, personal odes to ignorance. Think long on what was; on gardens of delight, flowers of passion, and beauty now rendered to stubble and angst. Forget not those memories of fearsome, huge, untethered Summer fires. Remember December.

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a.a.gallagher

Thank you for reading my words and for following me. I am a collector of stories. I also write to try and explain life's happenings to myself. I write poems about the environment, climate change plus fun rhymes aimed at young kids.

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