Cloudy
Once in a midnight sky
A cloud was found by my naked eye.
To spare the world the dreariness
I fought against my weariness.
Rising high in the night
I could not find the only light.
So I did not reach the cloud
And all the people screamed so loud.
-NICHOLAS SKELLEY - 8TH
“This poem is mainly about the public’s reaction to failure. Because the speaker in this poem possesses special abilities
that allow him to fly and remove the clouds that offend the peasants, he is expected to perform his duty perfectly.
Unfortunately nobody is perfect and he fails as a result of the darkness. The main issue , however, is that exaggerated
reaction to minor and rare failures are common in the world. If somebody even slightly messes up, they will be openly
and harshly criticized for something that so ridiculously minor that it’s trivial. It is possible that this reaction to failure i