Dark flakes

Like dark flakes with half-volition
Birds sweep under
the lead-like skies;

Like grey rays in upward direction
They swirl over
the ash-like lines.

How easy to dream
– how impossible to dare –
when the ash and the lead
come down upon us.

So easy to dare
– so impossible to dream –
when you are a grey flake
presuming to be a dark ray!