As the darkness and fire encases the my whole world, there are people running for cover from flaming rubble. Yet I continue to watch the skies. The sun is now gone, and only smoke and ashes remain in the prematurely dark sky. As a group of people I have once exchanged words with clear the streets, it's much easier to try to find the cause. I squint my eyes, and give up looking. I close my window and sigh as...

Sunlit trees.
Shining creek.
Swaying grasses.
Two children, no more than 10.
A lost memory.

The boy, awkwardly wearing a bright red t-shirt a little too big for him, takes the girl's hand.
She is wearing a soft pink sundress, her hair tied with a red ribbon.
Clutching tightly to the hem of her dress, she smiles.
They run, farther into the meadow than they have ever ventured...

A man stands at the edge of the cliff, behind him an...

the words you once told me lifted me up to the sky like balloons.
the last thing you screamed at me popped them all and I fell, crashing down.
i'm now broken by you, yet I want you to lift me up once more