another short poem for the moment…

The Seer-Saw’

Is this what Nostradamus saw?

In quatrains foretelling earthly Hell

Of fires and strife, of flames and war

Such scenes as these it seems could well

Have been what filled the seer’s mind

And made him wont to write of doom

Of burning lands and angry mobs,

A world that might be ending soon.

What knew he, in medieval times,

Of existential threats that we now face?

He merely tried in cryptic rhymes

To articulate the folly of our race

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/photos-los-angeles-palisades-scale-california-fires-rcna186941