After the Storm
As soon as your eyes flutter open
You see darkness, nothingness
And there is fear in your heart
As the ice droplets pelt against your skin
And your head pounds like an anvil
You feel as if you’re dying
Wondering where you are
You call for your family
Your ears hear a response
You walk blindly toward the voice
until you trip over a body
Alive.
It’s your mother
You lay beside her and your brother
On the cold wet ground
Soaking wet you pray, and hope and cry
Until you see a light
a man calling for you all
And you then feel in your heart
that you’re safe
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