What Else Can Be?

[Dark Muse]

What Else Can Be?

What else can be?
As I look around me and see this debris
these shattered memories
broken lives
all that are left behind.

Homes no longer
only wooden structures
planks and tarnished glass.

What else can be?
When nothing remains
but the tears and the grief
and you strive for a life beyond
the flood gates.

But this is the only place you
have ever known
yet now it is ravished
turned upside down.

What else can be?
Feeling stripped down
to my own nuts and bolts
unable to move
as the horror washes over me

Just once I wished for an escape
but it came just a moment too late
now that I have been uprooted and displaced

What else can be?
The end so near to me
is there a place to start again
to rebuild from here

what else can be?

[paperleaves]

Wow. this is extremely powerful. it makes me want to get "what else can be?" tattooed on my body, to remind myself of this poem. Thank you for posting. Hope all is well :)

[Dark Muse]

Wow, thank you very much

[goldenrod]

Unfortunately, this is the mantra of too many who have seen there lives and those of their loved ones destroyed and betrayed.
There being no cup big enough to hold the bitterness and the despair.

goldenrod.