Who can stand against the wind That Tornado Ally blows? What is within a people, Who naught but hardship knows? A force like an atomic bomb Has visited again- The great Plains own apocalypse in the roaring of the wind?
Moore is, more or less, destroyed. No stone upon a stone. Amidst the wreckage, childrenβs toys, That none will claim to own.
I have witnessed as the fires burn among the fallen walls. as first responders sift through stones in search of living souls. A playground, where no children laugh, Now a bleeding open sore.. Mothers, weeping for their children, Because they are no more..
A poem about the aftermath of the EF 5 Tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma. on 05/20/2013. The concluding couplet was suggested by the well known similar phrase in Jeremiah. The title is borrowed from a popular Bob Seeger tune