Tunnel from the Sky
I sit quietly in the afternoon breeze
Thinking thoughts of relative ease.
Thoughts come and go through my mind.
A catch hold they will never find.
I don't have to worry about a thing
Until I see the dark clouds rising.
My thoughts turn ill but I do not move.
I don't know what I am trying to prove.
The wind kicks up and billows around.
The dirt beneath me lifts off the ground.
A tunnel forms within the sky.
It hits the ground close nearby.
My heart has stopped, my blood runs cold.
I stop trying to be so bold.
I stand up and try to run.
My mind is telling me I am done.
The wind lifts me into the sky.
I have discovered that I can now fly.
But my arms will never turn to wings
And death to me the wind still sings.
I finally accept my untimely demise
And open up my unfearful eyes.
The clouds that I thought were as dark as night
Were in fact, nowhere in sight.
The wind still swayed in a gentle breeze
And the thoughts returned with relative ease.
-Laura Ellis (12-23-04)