I Wonder Poem by Gordon D Wilkinson

I sit and wonder
Quietly reflecting and watch
Yellowish white hellions race the morning sky
Piercing screeches resounding
Waves rolling across the waterless atmosphere
Flashing yellow display flags
Pruning here and there in their feeding frenzy
Soulful echoes of rivals searching for morns bounty
Flashing black and white capes
They joust for positions in the treetops
Like ghosts as quick, as they arrive they are gone
The butcher calls on his rounds
Merciless heat batters the landscape into submission
Constantly the chirping crickets penetrate the silence
Reptiles warming to the task of movement
Crawling and slithering searching for sustenance
Armies of black and red soldiers defending, scavenging
Dragging the spoils of victory home
True mammoths amongst insects
Black lines busy across the dusty broken soil
All battles daily fought against nature’s uncompromising way
Sitting, sweating out life’s cornerstone I wonder
What she is doing now?
There in the opposite spectrum of weather
Many thousands of miles of separation
Yet side by side in the mind
Caressing souls of Siamese joining
Apart but always together
Hoping the sun is shining on her day
Not for the heat, but for the warmth I share with her
One day no more the battle of the suns heat will I fight!
Just to be there, caress in body and mind my lover, my friend
Until then I will watch nature fight its daily course
Labour and sweat like the smallest, and wonder