Flood

The sky awoke and the clouds broke With a flash of light like spear thrown Thunder cracking splitting ground Cascading water flowing down Rivers bursting embracing all A land once fair now full of gall Embraced by watery cast spell Changed face of field and dale Where streams once sallied And dreamily wandered Woken now to nightmare sound Rocks and stones driven down Trees uprooted floating away Detrious spewed on another shore. A deluge of pain upon the world, Drowning all in its relentless path, Rich and poor no distinction made, Matters not to the rushing wave, Good or bad all taken from life, Behold the flood of gathered strife. © Andrew Provan McIntyre 26/9/2016 5.21pm.