You can only hunker down so long & then the wind dies
or rushes on to some other place to do its damage
& all that time you've been huddled there together
holding your breath, hoping against
wildest hope that up aboveground
nothing you love has been
blown away
hoping with a deep longing
the wind has cleared
the air &
the new
light
shining
is
there
to
stay
From Escaping Tornado Season by Julie Williams. Copyright © 2004 by Julie Williams. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. No part of this book may be used or repoduced without written permission from HarperCollins Publishers, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019.