Endure the Thunder

Thunder
When distant
Sounds like artillery.

Lightening
Within cloud tops
Is as detonation.

Reverberations echo
Not only roof to roof
Alley to alley
But cell to cell
Corpuscle to corpuscle.

The footfalls
Against concrete
Are those of playing teens
But they sound like Taliban.

I get it.

You sit across from me
Trembling
Hoping I not think you weak.
Eyes in your lap
Upon your folded hands
You pray there is some way
For you
To live
Away from the terror.

Of course there is none.

Son
The path you must forge
Is through the carnage
Not around it.
But I will go with you.

Together we will endure the thunder.