Desolation Prairie

Breathe deep and you will smell the suffering and death The smell of burning flesh it will take away your breath It was just a normal day, but in a split second it changed When the bomb dropped from the sky the whole world it rearranged Now there is nothing but destruction everywhere you look Not a tree, not a plant, not even a babbling brook Everywhere you turn death and suffering all you see You have to become deaf to the endless cries and pleas There is no one here to help, nothing you can do No hospitals, no doctors, just people passing through Looking for somewhere to go to try to start from scratch With visions of their former lives from which they've been detached Some looking for their loved ones who are more than likely dead Thinking maybe they will find one or two of them up ahead But I hold no such notions I know the truth you see All that is left of my family is probably just me To become part of a group again is the best that I could hope Without the comfort of other people I don't know if I can cope With the loss of my life and many others, everyone in fact All of us making the same wish: that we could just go back Back in time to computers and phones with our families at our sides Back to a time and place before almost everybody died That is where I wish to be and I'm sure everyone else does too But all I can do is trudge along, hoping that I can pull through I wrote this for a contest about a nuclear wasteland. Got 2nd place! I hope you enjoy. :)