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The day may be calm But it can begin within an instant Storms are like panthers Quick on their feet and always alert Black as night Deadly when not taken seriously Often striking when least expected The clear sky Once as blue as a hidden creek Becomes a mirage behind the clouds that blanket it Time seems to stop You and I notice nothing Flowers hide within their petals Closing off from the outside world Birds silence themselves Taking cover in the tree branches And the cloying scent of rain fills the air Together, we all wait Humans and nature alike With bated breath As the first heavy drops begin to fall The storm picks up quickly Clouds so full of water that they seem about to burst Cry tears down on the grass The wind screams out an eerie warning: This is only the beginning The worst has yet to come Clouds darken and close in The first flash of lightning licks the sky Leaving the air full of electricity And tasting like fire A heartbeat later The ground trembles as thunder growls Trees shake, all the way from their delicate leaves Down to the very ends of their roots For the wind sings louder And the trees know what is to come The clouds still their tears Lightning and thunder pause in their game Of cat-and-mouse Skies turn an ominous green As the rumble of trains are heard from a distance Chaos is let loose As if Pandora’s Box has been unlocked A siren’s shriek rips through the air The black funnel pours out of a cloud Stretches its neck toward the ground Picks up anything it can grasp in its hole of a mouth Chews it Swallows it Spits it out again Everything in its path is left broken The funnel retreats back into the angry clouds Leaving with a final streak of lightning And a restrained purr of thunder Pale light shines through the cloud in patches as they disperse Illuminating the destruction The only proof of a monstrous storm We come out of hiding, you and I Begin rebuilding the damage Under the colors of the rainbow And a shining sun
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Mar 23, 2016
Mar 23, 2016 at 11:39 AM UTC
Wrath of the Storm
The day may be calm But it can begin within an instant Storms are like panthers Quick on their feet and always alert Black as night Deadly when not taken seriously Often striking when least expected The clear sky Once as blue as a hidden creek Becomes a mirage behind the clouds that blanket it Time seems to stop You and I notice nothing Flowers hide within their petals Closing off from the outside world Birds silence themselves Taking cover in the tree branches And the cloying scent of rain fills the air Together, we all wait Humans and nature alike With bated breath As the first heavy drops begin to fall The storm picks up quickly Clouds so full of water that they seem about to burst Cry tears down on the grass The wind screams out an eerie warning: This is only the beginning The worst has yet to come Clouds darken and close in The first flash of lightning licks the sky Leaving the air full of electricity And tasting like fire A heartbeat later The ground trembles as thunder growls Trees shake, all the way from their delicate leaves Down to the very ends of their roots For the wind sings louder And the trees know what is to come The clouds still their tears Lightning and thunder pause in their game Of cat-and-mouse Skies turn an ominous green As the rumble of trains are heard from a distance Chaos is let loose As if Pandora’s Box has been unlocked A siren’s shriek rips through the air The black funnel pours out of a cloud Stretches its neck toward the ground Picks up anything it can grasp in its hole of a mouth Chews it Swallows it Spits it out again Everything in its path is left broken The funnel retreats back into the angry clouds Leaving with a final streak of lightning And a restrained purr of thunder Pale light shines through the cloud in patches as they disperse Illuminating the destruction The only proof of a monstrous storm We come out of hiding, you and I Begin rebuilding the damage Under the colors of the rainbow And a shining sun
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Mar 23, 2016
Mar 23, 2016 at 11:39 AM UTC
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