It shines brilliantly as it goes up high
a flash of white illuminating the whole sky
Bringing fear to the most valiant men
even causing the intelligent to become insane
As it descends down towards the floor
women children, away they go
as far away as they can manage
they don’t want to be part of a wreckage
And as it hits the ground on that humid night in May
not one soul there will ever again see the light of day.