Poem 114: Survival

An event I won’t soon forget happened this past Saturday

The results I experienced are still haunting me today

An occurrence that most people fear and dread

The type that you wish happened to someone else instead

It initiated a little after eleven, before high noon

The first wish was for it to all end soon

We all wondered aloud and it caused us great fright

The question was would we come out of this alright?

We proceeded to gather things together the best that we could

We were in this united, something we both understood

We had a game plan that we practiced so many times before

We knew what laid ahead of us could prove to be quite a chore

I headed down the stairs to survey our basement space

Then proceeded to search every room in our entire place

Everything looked good but we had no time to  spare

We wouldn’t be content until we scoured everywhere

We managed to stay calm, we tried not to freak out

Even while both of us were running all about

We checked our provisions to see what we had in store

Just in the off chance that we would have to set out for some more

We were prepared to hunker down and we didn’t know the length

We decided not to over exert and try best to retain our strength

New batteries were inserted in each and every flashlight

We were now well prepared for the oncoming night

We both were experiencing a chill because the temperature started to drop

This fiasco was persisting, when will it all stop?

We were determined that we wouldn’t bow to this setback

There was a large section of our city that was experiencing this attack

We never felt so helpless and lost in our way

Our new way of life, was it here  to stay?

I looked at my phone and it was down to thirty percent

I turned it off to conserve power during this tragic event

I never opened the fridge or the freezers so they would remain cold

The longer this lasts, who knows what perils could unfold?

No internet access, no way to get onto the net

How much more bleaker could this situation get?

We had to conserve our cell phone data and stick with our plan

Can we outrun this upheaval? I certainly hope we can!

Just then the dead silence was broken by the furnace kicking in the heat

We both congratulated each other for accomplishing this feat

We were now safe because the hydro had restored our power

This catastrophe we will never forget lasted almost a whole hour