bereft of life

Bereft of life, it rests in peace.

Ariana lagoon just outside the capital Tunis has been left a cracked expanse of dry mud, its small islands where birds usually nest now surrounded by sand and bereft of life after months of drought and a ferocious heatwave.

“It was written about being in a place which was full of life and then now is all, you know, bereft of life, so to speak.”

"It wasn't written for now but it was written about being in a place which was full of life, and then now that's all bereft of life, so to speak," he told Zane Lowe.

I turn to meet his eyes, then sigh and shift my attention back to the miserable late-autumn landscape on the other side of the windshield—all cold and dreary and bereft of life.