This darkness was like the lining of hell. It swept in the Trace with an aroma so vile and violent permeated the streets chocking everyone
Fearless and strong with an army of seas forcing it way into my village on the back of a million black stallions blocking out the sun
Ready for a war the skies roar causing the dogs to bark like they were out hunting with Daddy, but they sensed the evil that was approaching
Daddy looked out the window when he saw the sun no longer in the sky and called out to us thinking that a storm was coming, not knowing the horror that was lurking
Playing as children play we were all giggling racing home when something came out of the sky like a sharp arrow, hitting Junior in the crown of his head
There is the mists of his stride he fell limb, and my child like giggles turned into an old woman wail fearing my brother was dead
We ran up to where Junior was but my father heard my yell and came outside. Like the flashes in the sky my father was over him lifting his lifeless body out of the dirt
I saw the terror in my fathers face, and my father was never a man to cower. My father was the hunter and stick fighter, but that night my father whimpered , he was scared, he was hurt…
With the thunder roaring and the lightning lashing at our little village. Running throughout our roads Nature gangs violently swept in and my father slowly faded into the darkness that was in the corners of our home
I couldn’t cry anymore, I didn’t want to. Instead I prayed the way my grandmother thought me.
I reached for all I knew, My Lord and Savior Christ. I reached out my hands with my palms open wide and I saw my Lord on his throne
A message my Lord whispered into my ear, ” DO NOT FEAR”. I felt his love in the mist of hell. He held my hand and I did not fear from that day forth. I knew then, that a child that have fear is a child that knows not God
I lost a large part of my old self when my arms could no longer wrap themselves around my father or the sound of my better half was no longer to be heard, but the damage was done. The skies cleared and I went on living with the all I had left in my world, My God