The reality was inconceivable. Something terrible had happened. Just moments before the sunlight had disappeared in one deafening roar. The environment was now choked with dust. Around us metallic sounds ground harshly as massive steel girders shifted under countless tons of concrete.
.
Aside from our lives
All we had come to trust in
Crumbled suddenly
.
Groans echoed through the stifled silence as the innocent realized their fate. Despairing now in a fog of feelings; senses sharpened (sometime later) when a small beam of light began dancing in ghostly shafts between the rocks. Faintly we heard a man’s muffled voice crying out: “Are there any survivors?” Then there was weeping.
.
With one terse question,
When all seemed helpless and lost,
Hope unified us
.
“We’re in here,” some cried. As we would come to discover in days following; we were the unwitting recipients of failed peace talks, treachery, and malevolent technology. False promises, treasonist deceivers, and governments, rife of corruption, had cruelly rewritten the preferred course of history.
.
Who could understand
Such devastation rendered
In one moments time?
richard lloyd cederberg
10/16
richardlloydcederberg.com
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In a larger sense, you are describing a global event. A third world war that some would engage in to protect their pride while ignoring human dignity and right to live. Let us hope that it doesn't come to that. Whenever I hear politicians saber rattling to get folks rallied up around them, I think about victims, not about the glory of victory.
Ron
John
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