The Sky is on Fire – by Kelvin Jordan

The Sky is on Fire – by Kelvin Jordan

The sky caught flame without sound
No match was struck
No fire was found
Yet crescent waves began to rise
And crimson burns across the skies.
The clouds, once soft
Now bleeding red
Like whispered warnings overhead
A quiet blaze, no smoke, no heat
Just fire, where the heaves meet.
The sun sink low like dying coal
A molten glow, a fading soul
Spiralling sparks in streaks so wide
Like something fierce it couldn’t hide.
The world stood still beneath the glow
Watching the sky put on its glow
A silent storm of burning light
It turned the day into night.
But still it felt like something said
That even peace can look like wars
When beauty burns a little more
I witnessed this – April 5th 2026

This is a poem that Kelvin ‘KJ’ Jordan wrote in his cell having seen a beautiful sunset before retiring to his cell for the night.

He told me that it felt like the sky was telling him that the world is still out there, even though he has been incarcerated for 30 years now.