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Kamantha’s Substack · Sep 10, 2025

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Kamantha Müller · Kamantha’s Substack

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What a day
sun shining, blue skies
patches of cloud
drifting across time
have they, we been forgotten
does our creator not see
that cloud over there
a frozen koi fish
another floats like a sting ray
perhaps a bee
what must it be like
a cloud up high
above the mess
this mortal torn empire
Here we are
trying to stay present
but the present is a curse
we take cover, praying for benevolence
Switch off
don't look
maybe you'll wake up and find they let the power-less off the hook
but each day is deadlier and cruel
getting crueller too
while countries sit fat and wait for new rules
I don't know if the clouds can see
see the life crushing claim
a presumption of Majesty
if clouds could talk
would they whisper or shout
what is going on down there?
what's all this mass murder and destruction about?
maybe they'd weep
like us
rage and sleep
maybe they'd taste the acid
from bearing witness to burning sheets
tents
make-shift homes
weak refuge
amongst what was once thriving olive groves
If clouds could fight
with which crowd would they side
or would they see us all as the wholly threat
all of us humans
the only species that torches and wrecks
would they call us all the lesser beings
believing the world, their world
needed to be made clean
of us poor, rich,
white and black
women, man
all worthy of equal attack
a common enemy
no alliance and border control
to protect themselves from our venom
they declare, get out, this is our home
What a day
sun shining, blue skies
would clouds come down
and bother to save human lives

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