The Awakening - Act 2

All around us is quiet No sign of these honeycombed beings But all around me I see Just what my eyes are seeing People have fallen Just where they were Bodies emaciated In deadened stare Grey and ashen These now empty souls Lie like driftwood As we quietly patrol As we near the ocean It's surface stirs As they hover above In engine less purr We await their next move Oblivious we are As we look all around us Bodies so far Slowly they encroach But never fast like before They appear to be confused As one crashes to our shore In the blazing sun On a heat baked beach These honeycombed boned beings Like our dead, so bleached We approach with caution As we look all around Their all falling from flight Crashing to our grounds Smashing on impact They shatter into pieces Hope in us rises As their demise increases As the night falls We recall their first attack It was around about midnight When they came out of the black Many months have passed Since that night befell Earth As our scientists explained That's made the future worth As they found the reasons why These creatures from our depths Where they actually came from In their darkness, so adept How long have they been down there I doubt we will ever know But as soon as they were in our light Their weakness began to show For them there was a reason To escape from their dark We just happened to be in their way For us humans, we can restart http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/fantasy-13.php