War

Sirens are going off all over. Bullets are flying everywhere. The town that you once knew is now in ruins. Out of the corner of your eye, you see a mother crying over her dead son. You see a man carrying his wife out of the rubble. You see a mass of people all running around as if they had no idea what to do. You can't help but stand there and stare. Stare at their sadness in hope that all of this would go away. Stare at the pain that they are going through realizing that all this pain would go away if we just learned to get along.

As you stare into all the sadness, you hear a faint yell coming from behind you. "Run!" You bolt away as fast as you can without a second thought. Moments later you are tossed forward, screaming in pain and out of all of that noise, the only thing that you could hear was the shrieking high pitched ring followed by thundering boom of your heart beat coursing through your head. You try to sit back up, but the pain hurts too much. You look behind you. Everyone is gone. The mother who was crying over her son. The man who was carrying his wife. All who struggled to survive, now gone. You stare deeper into the sadness, wishing for all of this to stop, knowing that all of this would go away if we just learned to get along.

"They're coming," you realized. In the heat of the moment, you manage to get up and run. You try your best to ignore the pain, knowing that this was life or death. You limp onward telling yourself that you must keep going, that you must keep on living. You hear the footsteps getting closer to you. You run faster, but no matter how much faster you limp your way to safety, the sound of fear of everyone you once knew draws closer and closer. At the end of the alley way a dark figure appears before you. You stop in fear, knowing that you can't turn back. Those footsteps that were once chasing you, have finally came. It's too late now. You're surrounded, with no way out. You think to yourself, that all of this would go away if we just learned to get along but before you're even able to finish that thought, a loud boom is heard and suddenly, your world goes dark.