too big to fall | Write Out Loud

too big to fall | Write Out Loud

Too big to fall.

Daybreak from cobalt to light blue the first sunrays

 hit the west wall,
and grey wall becomes brilliantly white.

 The sun kept on
shining the wall turned brown and

 finally self ignited,
and since it was a house wall the house

 burnt down, it took
the fire truck one hour to get to there.

But out of the ashes raised a ruffled cockatoo with a
lighter

in its claws, flew to the neighbouring house, where it sat

flicking it. A police officer tried to shot it, but missed,

the bird flew to the forest and many fires began, the arson

stopped, it was said, when it ran out of lighter fuel.

Everybody blamed the parrot and hunted it to extinction

as the sun was too big to obliterate.