April 18, 2014
Prompt: Write about weather
Hurricane Sandy
We live on the shore
and were forced from
our home by the
insistent announcement
by a retired baseball manager
who said our area was being
evacuated
The storm loomed on TV
a whirling swirling mass of
clouds twirling its way towards
us in a line too definite to ignore
and we fled like displaced persons
from a war to a safer place
We headed north to where
we were told the storm
would miss
While we traveled she
kissed the Jersey shore
and like a two timed lover
moved structures into
pieces of wood and
twisted steel was tossed
into the ocean like a
scorned piece of jewelry
But she had followed us
and we heard her terror
in the wailing winds and
her result in the loss of
electricity so far from her
eye
And we saw on TV
her mammoth footprint
as images appeared
over and over again
of homes and businesses
unlucky to be in her path
We thought of how it
would be if we were
there and worried over
our few possessions
being overrun with flood
waters though we were
two stories up
As finally we arrived
home it was dark
the halls lit by emergency
lights and the only
destruction for us
was the spoiled food
in our refrigerator
When I saw the faces
of the people whose
homes had been taken
down like matchsticks
my thoughts were with
them yet I felt the guilt
of surviving unscathed
copyright 2014 by Barbara Ehrentreu
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