Rampage

Rampage

I woke up this morning to the sound of alarms, to the sound of people screaming in agony, to people crying from hurt. I look behind me at the path I have just walked and I see destruction all around me. The smoke, the smoke is so thick that I am choking on it. I can not breathe. I can not see through it. Where is everyone? I reach, I flail my arms in horror, with hopes of touching something, but no one is there

The heat, rising from the burning embers around me, begins to boil my flesh. How did this all happen? The smell, oh how it makes me wretch. How did I not see this happening all around me? Why did I not do anything to stop it? WHERE WAS I?

I look beside me too check on family, but my wife and kids are no longer there. They are being rushed away, the medics tell me they have been severely burned and they may not make it.

Oh LORD, what has happened here? How could this disaster happen and I not even know?

I stumble through the darkness and find my way home. I can not think! I can not remember anything! Everything is so vague. With each step I take, ashes fall from my clothes. My eyes are burning, my throat is sore. My chest gasps for air, but there is none to take in.

The house is so empty, everything is bare. I go looking for anything that may help me. There is nothing here. The walls, the walls are closing in on me. And I run, I run as fast as I can to get away but I am getting no where. I fall to my knees and I yell to the LORD! LORD, LORD Show ME LORD! WHAT has done this? What has caused this destruction? Who is it that did this? As I sit in silence and the darkness envelopes me.

I hear a noise above me. I look up to see, that I am in the bathroom. I gather myself up, and look towards the mirror. NO!! NO!! NO!! IT CAN NOT BE!!! I fall to floor, flat on my back, it can not be true. I REFUSE TO SEE, but, the person that did this……….. IT WAS ME!

The mirror fell to the ground and shattered at my feet. Amongst the shards was the shape of a broken heart. The shards reflect the past at me. I see me, gleefully, walking from friend to friend and handing them a treat, which was labeled “exaggerations and white lies”. It shows me handing out cards to my mother and siblings that read “Tales of Woe”. I can not look away! This can not be true! I do not want to look no more. Stop this, SOME ONE STOP THIS!!!!!!!!! This is insanity.

My eyes are drawn back to the shards of a broken heart at my feet. I see my wife, pleading with me. She’s warning me where this will lead …. OH GOD, MY GOD what did I do. I see the smirk on my face, what was wrong with me? For the gifts I handed her were distrust, despair and dishonesty.

I jumped to my feet and I ran down the stairs. I looked and I searched every where. There was nothing left. Not one stone unturned. For all was destroyed, in a Rampage of Lies.