The Greatest Adventure.....

by Conor O


Boom!
The explosion rouses me from my drug-induced coma
As the hospital walls around me
Are reduced to rubble,


My first thought: “Where’s my family?”
I get up, still woozy from the coma, I fall many times.
But still, the need for my family is greater than any thing else.
I look around for the first time
In who knows how long.
The charred walls and mutilated bodies
Of doctors and nurses make me urge for my family...
Even more.


The streets are lined with bodies...and...
I, not knowing who or what killed them...
I trudge on.


The houses are crumbled and faces I once knew
--unrecognizable...so...
I trudge on.


All I want to do is find my home and family
I wander up the hill to my home.
Barely noticing the chunks blown out of the hill


I enter through my door and the scene of destruction brings me back.
I realize the greatest adventure will begin now for me
The greatest adventure is death and our town has taken it, I am the last one.
But that will change after these final words...