Holocaust

You searched within

but all you could find was

hollowness

a pile of bones brittle and unloved

reduced to ash

after being obliterated

by fire

that ravaged your life

without mercy

now you search the horizon

for a glimpse of rain

scanning the inner plains

for shelter

but all you hear is

the distant rumble of thunder

circling around you

as the lonely crows

flying in over the horizon

sound out from deep with their bellies

a haunted song

of holocaust