The Sky

When you look out through the bars at the sky ,

It's not bars you see but the sky overhead .

Yesterday's bread smells of mould and loss ,

but tomorrow's smells like genuine bread .

You say : the sky is a trick of the light .

But the bars are the trick of the light , I say !

Because bars are a hashtag , just a habit , right ?

And this is the hashtag trending today .

Yet the sky cares nothing for hashtags at all ,

the sky has no thought for trends up ahead ,

it does not feel the ground where our feet fall ,

nor count the centuries and slices of bread .

The sky just draws clouds of cotton wool over time

this is all that goes on really .

And the sky does not see any bars at all

when it peers deep into the sky in me .

 --- Andrei Aliaksandrau