Happy Haiga Day!

I am so ready to be done with 2018. It's been a horror show. This poem is a cherita terbalik, which is simply a cherita's 1-2-3 lined stanzas rearranged. In the third stanza I've borrowed words and sentiments from Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, March 1861.

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Photo by Andrew Gaines/Unsplash, altered by me.

Text:

we've been scorched
by smoldering hellfires...

two thousand nineteen

better angels now requested
to bring fire hooks to break
through to our mystic memories