Today I looked up

And tilted my head

What did I find?

A single blue thread

I reached up my hand

And closed my fingers around

This soft blue thread,

And brought it to the ground

But this thread didn’t end

It kept coming down

So I pulled and pulled

Until the sky drowned

The cool vivid blues

Turned to warm calm grays

And I kept pulling

The thread all-day

Until it piled ‘round me

And circled where I stood

I wanted to pull the sky down

And if I could

I would

So I kept a pullin’

Till the sky was no more

I had defeated the sky

I had won the war

So I went a yellin’

“I took down the sky!”

But the people around me

Started to cry:

How could you?

You monster.

You took it away!

From these words

I started to sway

“I did it”

I whispered

As tears fell from my eyes

Knees sank to ground

Covered with skies

And I tried to look up

But what did I see?

No sky was there

So I had to agree

It’s my fault

It is

I’ll take the blame

I pulled on the sky

And down it came

Down on the ground

I wiped my face and sighed

It wasn’t enough

But at least I tried