Literature
My Life Is Gone
In the blink of an eye,
Through hurricane force winds,
In the earth's shuddering sigh
In the eyes of my twins.
I stand upon the edge
Of destruction, ruin, chaos
Looking down from the ledge
As water swirls by.
My home now is sticks,
Jumbled, tattered and torn.
Treasured memories gone
The scene so forlorn.
Everything we held dear
Now scattered and gone
I am filled with such fear
At the rise of the dawn.
I do not want to see
Not one picture more
My heart aches and it bleeds
At the devastation galore.
My first thought is to hide
That it's all a bad dream.
That the news team has lied
Things can't be so extreme.
But I wake a