Torn

 Torn   June 20, 2025

Some months ago, I experienced a cloudy, stormy night. The kind of night to be aware of the storm potential-as the weather can change in the blink of an eye where I live. 

I kept an eye on the skies, from my second floor flat, giving me a higher vantage point to the happening in the skies; they grew dark right before my eyes.

Darker, darker, darker still.

I saw an ombré of colors in the clouds, from pure white to dark grey, to bordering on black. Top to bottom: dark grey, grey, light grey, white. As I watched the clouds, the colors faded, morphing into the darker grey colors.

Then out of nowhere, I noticed a change in the clouds. There was, all of a sudden, a horizontal break in the clouds. It was if a horizontal window had been opened, right to left, out of the clouds themselves. 

I could see blue skies through this window in the clouds. Grey clouds before me, blue skies in the distance, visible through the window in the clouds. It was as if a piece of paper had been torn, horizontally.
  
I took photos of the phenomenon, as the moment was uniquely bizarre. It was such a rare sight; I thought no one would believe me.

I mean, think about it; when have you ever seen clouds, or the sky itself...torn??

"Torn" by Esperanza Habla