Gradually

We waited many years the few of us that are left In our minds we couldn't imagine the surface on our earth so reft What we knew before we will never know again That man can be so destructive, and no one ever gains Slowly we start to climb the steps to a world we knew What element of view awaits as we step into anew The sealed doors to our mountain safe-way creak against the quiet Our hearts beat in-trepidation as we await their impending riot Through the door we go into a landscape we read about in books Do we appreciate what we have survived, so alive to be able to look We look out across the valley once lush like a carpet of greens What we see before us we knew as out of this world martian scenes The town that we knew and loved has disappeared from view Now replaced by open sores as they spill their molten spew The sun is but a blur through a darkened dusty haze What little oxygen presents, appears to fuel this fiery display As we head down towards where our town was, very little of it remains Collapsed and buried buildings our view is now en-grained Skeletal metal frames as if molded by a sculptor's torch Rocks melted into a glaze, by the bombs inevitable scorch Many miles we now have walked through our barren radiated lands Was it to be from the dawn of time that this moment was in our plans As we head back to our mountain safe-way, looking back down our valley It will be many many years, like it was, but we'll get there gradually http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/fantasy-18.php