Warning Flashes

Lightning strikes without a warning, Unable to cause the heart to pound, A word, a touch, have sped the pulse, While violence rages all around. The bird has learned a song it heard, While passing through the storm, Familiar strains, unsung by her, Well up within the tiny form. Can time protect the youthful brow, As it takes on the years of care, Can anger quell it's passionate song, And leave it dying there? The moments of colour amid the grey, Flash wildly as memories around her fly, Will regret forever the cadence be, Love marches to as years go by? YLE