ELEPHANTS AT SUNSET

Surrealistic scene
 Elephants that ascend
Hovering in ginger hued light. 

Leaden legs liquefy
Drizzling solid lead drops
Which parched shrubs can’t sip or swallow. 

Sunset watching the sight
Hurries to disappear
counteracting an earth melt down. 

Not a dili dali
Sun vanishes in the west
Pachyderms hide behind black clouds. 

Earth breathes sighs of relief
Greeting another day
Safe till the next painting is done. 

©Corinne Mustafa
September, 2014