As We Longed for the Sun

The sun rose unnoticed to the world,
Hidden behind black skies
The ground shook apart
And millions of lives seeped through the cracks
Fire poured from holes in the earth,
Reducing the empires of man to ash
Men, women and children looked to one another
As the life left their bodies and eyes
Animals fled to nowhere
And they were engulfed in the destruction
Great forests fell,
Leaving but stubs of trees and the ashes of life
Lightning fell from the blackened sky,
Further defacing this scorched planet
By luck or by strength or by smarts
A small few remained alive
In dark tunnels and dirty basements we slept
Sheltered by the work of our fathers and grandfathers
As fire and ash rained from the heavens
Burning all the strings that tied us to the world
Over time the air cleared and we sensed a change,
Crawling up from our graves
Slowly we found each other,
Wandering aimlessly across our unrecognizable Earth
All our slates wiped clean,
Regret began to seep into our souls
A thousand days and a thousand nights we sat and stared,
Holding in our minds these visions of an apocalyptic nature
And then we saw the sun,
Coming up over the crimson horizon