A Long Night and a Tornado

©LaDena Campbell aka justateacher

This poem was written while waiting for my husband and daughter to return from their trip to make sure everyone was okay. A tornado had just hit our city just a quarter mile away from our home. Thank God, no deaths have been reported in Kansas at this time. Please pray for those who lost homes and businesses...

In a darkened basement

Sitting all alone

With a sleeping two year old

And a dead telephone

In the eerie silence

I hear sirens all around

I bend over the two year old

To shield him from the sound

I want to get out and examine the damage

I can’t leave because of the two year old

I am getting claustrophobic

I try again to just be bold

Even the wind has silenced

I listen carefully to see what I hear

Look at the sleeping two year old

Pick him up and hold him near

I don’t know how long

That I need to stay where I am at

I am almost too scared to move

With the two year old on my lap…