Out of the Dream
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We woke to the sound of China cracking,
and curtain rods hitting the floor.
Daddy arose and he seen the light,
the knob was red-hot on the door.
He woke momma in a terrible fright,
we three kids were asleep down the hall.
When the lights began to flicker,
our lives were all that he saw.
Questions arose and then burned out,
I don't remember callin' 911.
Life was rushing fast before our eyes,
burning out like a last setting sun.
It sounded like runaway freight trains,
rollin' thunder down the hall.
On a track leading to dominoes
that were not quite ready to fall.
They heard us children shrieking,
you know we were scared to death!
"Everyone get down to your knees!"
Has death's artist drawn their last breath?
Daddy wet a towel and he turned the blazing knob,
realizing our screams were no more.
He ran through 6 ft. flames down the hall,
and he kicked in our bedroom door.
Frozen and huddled in the corner,
behind our new bunk beds.
Daddy heard us rapidly pray
with a Pokemon blanket on our heads.
Daddy picked up the sobbing twins,
and I told him I would run.
The fire must have reached daddy's .45,
I heard bullets fire from a gun.
Then a new skylight appeared up above,
the room reeked of daddy's singed hair.
It then began to rain inside,
we knew that a crew was out there.
The front door then burst open wide,
in came a laser light show.
Narrow light beams danced on the smoke,
showing them the way to go.
The policeman sat his wife in a cruiser,
and daddy walked out of the dream.
The children climbed onto the fire truck,
I heard an oxygen mask muffled scream.
*Please plan an escape route with your family, and plan where you'll meet if this does happen to you.
If you plan a place to meet, firemen won't lose their lives looking for someone who's already outside!
~Red~
A contest entry
- *I AM SICK OF LIMITED WRITING* FORTY LINES OR MORE!!!* by Tweedle Dee.
1330 points, ended January 15, 15 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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awe so sad. Kinda confused me cause I thought it was killer trying to kill his wife at first, but thats because I had the expectation that it was exactly what you was trying to get across but it was a great poem! Like once I got it I went OHHHH and it clicked. Great job on the rhyming pattern!
really liked it
Good luck in the contest and so sorry it's taken forever to judge!!
Dee -
wow so raw and real! definitely painted a picture in my mind. is this from a personal experience? so scary
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This is not a personal tragedy of mine. My brother in law is a firefighter, and thinking about what he does spawned this write. Thanks for the great comments.
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Gosh this is a great story with so much truth in it!
Thanks a lot for sharing this here and I hope that you do well with it in this contest my friend! Take care and Merry Christmas to you!
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Thanks so much Jeremy! You too!
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