Unexpected Casualty

Thud, skid, shriek... bash! Subject to a crash, From audience to casualty, Paying a futile penalty, This unexpected political revolt, Instantaneously uprises the search for whom to fault, Alerting of authorities and people through news, Help on its way as chaos builds-up and fear brews, Shock and panic spreads, time becomes endless, Dialling with not answer, agitated and relentless, The seconds stretch out, unbearably grasping the phone, Engulfed in sheer isolating fear- on the edge of the unknown, Reality begins to turn gory and glim, In an instant from civilian to victim, Wishing you had stayed home instead, As you're filtered from those that lay dead, Contemplating distraught, confusion and regret, This pain, shock and fear- you will never forget, As you shed your first post-traumatic cry, They say you're 'lucky' you didn't die, Still amidst the debris several phones ring continuously, Police scurry, pulling back family members searching hopelessly, Behind the line hysterical fathers, wives, siblings... awaiting, Whilst most mourn, pointlessly politicians are left debating...