Unexplained Miracle

She woke up this morning with nothing on her plate, staring at the barrel of the gun pointed in her face. She has been wandering up and down the street since October twelve with a small bag, a worn our shoes, a suite of clothes on her back and her ten years old daughter by her side. 

Their house is lying flat from a missile attack that killed eight family members but she and her daughter emerge from the rubble. All her personal belongings are gone and her well-kept lawn was soaked with blood like foot prints in the sand but they were determined to live like the family with the cottage on the hill. 

I stood behind my window and watch the missile flying over the tree and a big explosion resonating a message to thee. For the first time I saw fear in her eyes, and she said quietly that she was not ready to die.  

She yields to the evacuation warning and went into the unknown walking in dust feeding on the moisture generated from her saliva. She wasn’t sure where she was going but she joined the southern pack and thousands of them strolled along with a missile aimed in their back. 

She kept pressing on hoping to sing a different song but the wind keeps blowing dust into her face but hope kept her courage strong. All the planes were grounded and the only way out was through the Egyptian border but that too come to a standstill. Traffic was not moving the border was closed and hope sunked into the ground. She held onto her ten years old daughter and whispers a silent prayer and said “everything will be alright”. 

She forced the tension into her gut and held the tears in her shoe, and stood in line waiting on the divine but, the message was clear that the wait was going to be long and destiny would change her song.  

She stood there waiting as if she was going somewhere but the heavens knows that she was going nowhere , just as she was thinking about it, shots were fired in the air and two men started a brawl over what I don’t know and the people gather around watching the men throwing punches at each other.  

All of a sudden someone pulled her out of the line, and she held on to her daughter and kept looking at the strange character, she felt a strange energy that she could not resist and so she went along with it. 

They hurried around the bend and the strange character remove the scarf and she realize that it was her old college friend a car was waiting on the other side and they went straight to the airport and mercy got her out, they did not exchange a word they kept looking at each other.   

They went on a chartered flight and she landed in a country of her dream. Tears begin to flow and finally destiny let her go .

Copyright © Christine Phillips | Year Posted 2023

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