Fire Storm
Luke sat in the family room of his parent's house. He had been working on his laptop as he had now been accepted back at Oakdale University after his scandalous affair with ballot cheating.
He looked up from his laptop to the Plasma TV staring right in front him. His eyes became wider as he saw the devastation that was coming up on the screen. The pictures of the wild bushfire that came upon a small state in Australia, Victoria.
He was amazed and saddens by the pictures he was seeing, of the burnt houses and communities. The People's faces full of fear and sadness.
He suddenly found himself typing his thoughts into his laptop. Tyring to some what work out how such devastation could hit so hard….
Suddenly black, the day becomes night
Smoke chocking the air,
Everything coming to and end.
Suddenly Still, Suddenly quiet
Roads disappear
Orange tinge becomes part of the only light visible
Flames are seen as they rise above over tree tops
Over Hills and along the ground the land burns
Trees turn into blackened posts and stumps
Broken by the wild fire that has spread around
Snapped in half by the wild wind that came about
Leaves and embers raining down like brimstone from above
Becoming like the dark and painful pictures of hell
The roar of the fire adding to the horror that unfolded.
People try to escape
Down dusty and dirty roads
From burning houses and communities
Desperately trying to get to safety
The run through wild and untamed bush
The heat become to much
The smoke become a chocking mess
Those who tried to escape by car or foot found themselves trapped
Cars piling up not able to see, crashing into one another
Becoming the final resting place for most who dared to go out
Houses that where alight became like everything else around
The final grave for many who's spirits who remain
Forever trapped between worlds unknown
Embers rained down burning into the skin, into the mind of many
As they also tried to save their properties, their neighbours properties
Their communities, themselves
Cars exploded as trees became engulfed in fire
Everything around on fire
The sounds of everything alight, adding fear to all who may survive
Whole towns and communities wiped off the map
As if they never existed
Flattened to just twisted metal and ash
Fire fighters, volunteers and rescue staff
Left to pick through the remains
To find and recover the many who did not make it
To help the survivors through the grief
To support each other
So many where to perish
Many young and old
Rich and poor
Single and married
Whole families gone
Whole townships destroyed
But the spirit is not
For houses can be destroyed
Communities flattened to nothing
But can always be rebuilt
Families and friends who survived
Remembering and never forgetting the tragedy that unfolded
Searching for loved one
Grieving for loved ones lost
Yet many still to grieve their own losses
A whole State
A whole Country
Turned upside down, Inside out
Mourning the loss of so many
Supporting those in need in any way and everyway possible
A nation that shall never forget
But always remember
A nation of a sunburnt country
A country that will remain scarred forever
A nation that will never be the same
A nation blackened in its heart
Blackened across it land and beauty
Forever marked
Forever reminded of this disaster that happened
A National that will rebuild its communities
That will grieve
That will support
That will move on
Become stronger than ever before
A nation that will rise above the ashes and move on with the task ahead.
Luke looked up from his laptop looking at what he had wrote
Looking back at the TV seeing the pain that unfolded
The pain on the faces he watched
The sadness that struck him like many other
Praying and hoping all will be fine….one day