To resolve the electricity shortage here, we’re, going BACK to coal, is that backwards, or what??? Translated…
I’d Met, a Clean Piece of Coal. So Pretty
I’m Guessing, that it was, Waiting by the Side of the Roads for Me
Its Dark Black Eyes So Deep Gazing Passionately
Seemed to, about to, Start Dripping—it’d, Introduced itself to Me:
It is, a Clean Piece of Coal
A Perfect Square
From the Glorious, Ancient Mines Down Underground
It Had that Scent of Elegance
Made Me Think, that Perhaps, I Could Carve it into a Plaque
or, Polish it into a Mirror
Or, Make it into a Piece of Jewelry. I’d Asked:
Why Did You Show Up Here?
In This Owing to the Brightness
Where there’s, Brightness Everywhere, the Surface of Earth
Your Black is Perfect to a Shine
to Becoming, an Eyesore—————
You Should be in Hiding
Or, Maybe, be More Low-Key, Don’t be So Black
Although as Everybody Takes One Look at You
People Would Know You’re NOTHING More than a Piece of Coal
But, Coals Should be Dirty, and Black
This Black-White Layered Human World
The Hearts are Grayed Out in the in-Betweens
And, Coals Should Just Keep on Being Black Like This
Not Completely Black
But, Definitely Black, Black, AND Dirty———
I’d, Took it Up into My Hands, Toyed with It
Felt its, Heavy Weight
Like it was, Trying to Get Help from Gravity
to Leave My Hand
to Return Back to the Earth, to the Underground, to the Center………
But I am, Eventually, a Primate that Needed Warmth
I Have Too Little Hair Covering Me Up
Couldn’t Withstand Being Toyed by the Winds
I’d Told it: I’m Sorry
Although You’re a Piece of Coal so Clean
But I Couldn’t Give You Any Special Treatments———
I’d Tossed it into the Fires
The Fires Rushed Up from All Around
Kissing it, Sucked Out the Energy that it has within
I’d Immediately Felt Warm All Over
Just Like Many Years Later
I’d Still Remembered
How on This Extremely Cold and Cruel Winter Day
There was, those Smokes that’s Risen into the Skies
Used Its Special Quality
Mixed Itself into that Dirtied, Grayed Sky
Then, Fallen Down
onto that Equally
Blackened Earth
And this would be, on the government’s thought of going back to using coal for energy, to save on the electricity, and, this IS, going BACKWARDS in time, the reason WHY coal wasn’t used anymore WAS because of the air pollution it created from ages ago, and now, due to energy shortage, this government is going BACKWARDS!!!