The Earthquake

BOB WAS WORKING IN THE BASEMENT
WHEN THE BUILDING BEGAN TO QUAKE
FIRST THING TO CROSS HIS MIND
“BAD PLACE TO RIDE OUT A QUAKE!”

THE WALLS BUCKLED THEN CAVED IN
AND THE CEILING BEGAN TO FALL
SOMETHING HIT HIM VERY HARD
PINNING HIM UP AGAINST A WALL

ALL AROUND HIM THERE WAS DARKNESS
THE BUILDING SWAYED AND GROANED
PAIN CAME IN INCREDIBLE WAVES
CAUSING BOB TO WEEP AND MOAN

DESPERATE, HE CRIED FOR HELP
AS HE FRANTICALLY REALIZED HIS PLIGHT
AN UPHILL BATTLE HE WAS FACING
WHILE TRAPPED AND BLEEDING THAT NIGHT

SOMETHING LAY ACROSS HIS LEGS
HIS ARMS BROKEN AND OF NO USE
BLOOD POURED DOWN HIS FACE
AN EXAMPLE OF PHYSICAL ABUSE

SUDDENLY THERE WAS MOVEMENT
HE WONDERED WHAT IT COULD BE
RUSTLING, IT CAME MUCH CLOSER
AND BRUSHED AGAINST HIS KNEE

SCREAMING, HE SCARED IT OFF
TRYING VERY HARD TO CALM DOWN
COULD IT BE WHAT HE FEARED
IF SO, THEN HE’D RATHER DROWN!

THERE WERE RATS LIVING DOWN HERE
HIS BOSS HAD TOLD HIM SO
TERRIFIED, HE WONDERED WHAT TO DO
WHILE DESPERATELY WANTING TO GO

AFRAID TO FALL ASLEEP HE WAS
BUT EXHAUSTION TOOK ITS TOLL
TWO BEADY EYES WERE WATCHING
AS IT VENTURED FROM ITS HOLE

ATTRACTED BY THE BLOOD IT WAS
OVERCOMING FEAR IT DREW NEAR
IT SENSED THAT BOB WAS ASLEEP
AND KNEW THE COAST WAS CLEAR

BOB WOKE UP IN HORROR, SCREAMING
AS THE RAT BEGAN TO EAT HIS FACE
THE RESCUERS FOUND HIS UNIFORM
BUT OF BOB THEY FOUND NO TRACE!

Thursday, June 23, 2022