A creeping drought spread over the vast land
The arid ground radiated heat
In a year with no water
Once green leaves crumbled into nothing
The sun became an ominous spectre
As all creatures sought shelter
A spiderweb of scars cut deep
And her face was forever changed
When the rain went away
A bolt like judgement
Struck the eucalypts like so much fodder
For hellfire that sundered it all
The flames licked from grassland
To scarlet canopy
Trailing a collective despair
The welts a band of fury
And her face was forever changed
Waiting for the rain to return
A gale forced through and
Challenged all structures to bend
Or be taken away with the tempest
Then bled down nature’s salvation
Then built structures could not hold
The weight of the flood
The crumbling of unnatural things
Will give way to wilderness once more
Brave and made anew
Her face was forever changed
When the rain returned
