Natural Disaster

By Kimberly Shah

Lightening strikes against the moon lit sky 

My safety is shaken

Violent vortices rip apart my heart 

It is no longer beating

Blaze of fires fill the fields  

Burning away my memories 

Winds blow sands across the vast desert lands

The fight is blinding 

Earthquakes create a world divide 

My foundation falls from beneath me

Landslides take out the mountain sides

I am buried alive

Tsunamis flood the coastal shores

Pulled into the undertow of the forlorn 

Blizzards freeze to cease the soul 

A hypothermic shell of existence I’ve become 

And by some chance should I survive

I beg you please 

Let the asteroids fly 

Suffocating volcanic plume filled skies

Left for all what’s meant to die

It would be welcoming 

Yet in the end should sparks reignite

Allowing a glimpse of love to glow a-bright

Even if for just one more night

It was all meant to be 

My natural disaster 

By Kimberly Shah