I don’t know if you have the time to hear this rhyme but I know I fell from the sky and I turned to evil in the dark of land. When I met man we despised a plan. A plan to rule, a plan to enslave, a plan to make it all our own way. I couldn’t hear, I couldn’t see, I closed my eyes to the light you see. I felt all powerful, nothing can stop me. I’ll build a tower and shoot an arrow, I cursed the sky and killed the sparrow. I was in the dark and I thought I was in control but it was the dark that had control of me. I was so blind I couldn’t see, trying to find a way out but I couldn’t break it, I knew I only had an ounce of life left so I couldn’t fake it. Then I saw a small speck of light, I cried, I plead, I ran all night, I chased it all around the earth, until I called its name, it birthed. Into more light brighter than the sun, I knew this was a way out, oh my evil fun was over and I’ll never go there again, the light brought me through the darkness and I never will find my way back, those footsteps are washed away, this is a brand new day, I’m gonna make it to them golden gates and rejoice with love because there’s no more hate. One LOVE!
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Push
I woke up in a ditch upside down in my service truck. I remember I was at work running a road call to work on a broke down 18 wheeler. I had a bunch of used tires in the back of my truck and then I remembered I saw the flash, the skylight up and heard the blast. I was stuck in my seatbelt and my head was bleeding I didn’t think I was gonna make. Then I thought about my daughter is she ok? She needs you, push yourself, push harder, move! Then the heart shaped locket, it falls out of my right pocket the one I was going to give her, it was a picture of us with her mother, her mother passed away a few years ago. A memory of love that pushed me every step of the way, every day. I grind my teeth my pain grew numb and I reach for the knife in my back pocket and cut my seatbelt as I fell I kept an eye on the locket. The windows of my truck were covered in the black tar substance and I was in a river. I could hear the water flowing. I could break the glass but I couldn’t push through the rubber I had to find a tool inside the truck, yes a prybar that I left inside the cab. I started cutting through the rubber with my knife and pry bar and water started coming in. I pushed my way through out of the truck with the locket in my hand. I opened it up and the memory of my wife, my family hit me so hard. I close my eyes and cried quietly, but screaming a silent scream, then I heard my daughters voice and my sadness turned into anger. I grind my teeth and I said push harder, get to her she still alive and she needs you. I look around and I’m in a River and all along the shoreline I see bodies. I knew this river was deeper but it seems most of it evaporated during the blast. I looked at my service truck upside down in the water and possibly the tires saved me they melted around the cab in the water, it must have kept me from frying. The water was so hot, I swam to the shoreline, oh my god when I saw the bodies it was like they were melted from the inside out. They I heard push harder clear as day and I ran up a hill but only to see the city destroyed and on fire. I started running down the street from the downtown area, seeing people melted in their cars the smell made me choke from the burning flesh. I ran for about 2 miles when I fell and started to cough blood. A pile of debris that used to be a convenient store, I started searching through it and I found water bottles. Then again like if someone was standing next to me I heard the words push, push on. There wasn’t another living soul in the area everyone was dead. I grabbed a bag and filled it up with water bottles, the water help my throat but I kept coughing blood. I found a bike that was damage but it still worked I open the locket and remembered a good memory of all of us riding bikes down a big hill that my daughter thought was scary. With tears in my eyes I rode that bike as fast as I could, headed home. We lived in the country outside the city and I was almost there. I saw people and the houses and the trees were not burnt like in the city. I must have made it out of the blast zone. I stopped in front of my house and I threw the bike down and I ran to the front door. When I entered I saw my daughters face, I saw tears in her eyes but then her face lit up like the sun when she saw me and I gave her the locket and she opened it and I was home.
By Joseph Samuel5 years ago in Fiction
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