This Time This Is It- by: unknown forgotten

It seems more and more I stop
And need a moment to collect my thoughts

With the view of the broken glass
And the ciiy that had just crumbled
The rats came crawling
Dying on their own
The defeated defeated
By a disease even they could not withstand

Quaking, the ground rolled like the pacific
One a beautiful summers day
The few of us stood there silently
There was nothing to say

But she said nonetheless:
"The day before today,
My mother was dying.
She had cancer in her brain.
The doctor said she had two months to live.
But she is already gone today."

And at that moment
The sun dropped beneath the rubble
The cloud of ash that coarsed the sky had not yet settled
And another spoke:
"I was wasting my life.
I've lost absolutely nothing.
And it makes it feel even worse."


From a town we rarely visited
From the east, behind our backs
Rose flames miles high
That made love with the sky
It's twisting orange bursts
Caressed the blackening clouds


No one spoke again
Until the sun forced through the black sky
And the world was no longer green and brown
No longer full of beautiful man made synthetic colors
But a harsh dead gray
That our tears beaded upon after they had fallen