Follow the Light
The light it spread.
Dispersed and shed,
a playful sight to us all.
The adults stayed stunned
but we children thought fun,
we ran to it as the elders stalled.
Imaginations ran bare,
the curiosity we shared,
as we hurried like never before.
Expectations were heightening
with patterns of smoke and lightening,
we had to see what was in store.
But the heat grew intense
we found it difficult to pretend
that we could still carry on.
Some of us fell down.
As the others looked back and frowned
some mocking that we couldn't move on.
As we tried to get up
a hand grabbed us and fled
up to the hills where we lived.
As we looked up above.
All the people rushed down and shoved
each other to get the children below.
As they grabbed the young
they caught them and ran
to escape the bright flash, as it grew to a meteoric show.
The voyage back was a struggle
the one then, we didn't understand.
while at our destination, the news caught hold.
The town that was down the hills
becomes a childish remnant
as the premonitions of war took its toll.
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