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Tornado Comes Toward Hospital

weird clouds in a calm sky
a tornado is spotted
children want to peek

its roaring toward us
many are hysterical
hospital hallway

lights go out silence
day turns ebony
alerts hit cellphones

uncomfortable 
in my flimsy paper gown
next to wheelchairs

some run towards basement
non-ambulatory can't
I stay with my friends

two are panicking
two of us reassure them
we are in gods hands

tornado turns north
leaving these babies alone
sitting on dads lap


crazy crying now
great relief we are all safe
it missed hospital

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Michelle Faulkner

Date: 5/31/2019 4:15:00 PM

Great phrase 'uncomfortable/in my flimsy paper gown' - vividly describes the vulnerability, I was so glad this had a happy ending!

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 6/1/2019 4:30:00 AM

I am too. The woman across from me was on the phone screaming at her husband to get the kids out of their trailer and get to her sister's house. She thought they had already gone, and her trailer was in the path. An F-4, on Tuesday, 100 miles wide.