TORNADO (Written by 08-01-09)

Tornados are not like Hurricanes.
Hurricanes give plenty of time to get out of the way.
Tornados are not like earthquakes, they give no warning at all
All cause mass destruction, innocently indifferent.
 
But a tornado is different. Doppler radar is virtual.
There is always a warning but it’s too little too late.

Am I running from destruction?
Or do I create it?

Mass chaos surrounds me.
Or do I surround it?

I’ve been though earthquakes, but I never felt like one.
I’ve been through hurricanes and survived every single one.

But a tornado is different.
The fear builds up in too little time to run; flight has no chance.
There is no way to fight the path of destruction.

It is always within reach of me.
I can’t get outside of it.
Is it following me?
Or am I within it? Could I be a…?

All my mishaps, do they happen to me?
Or do I happen to them?
Am I running from the tornado?
Or, perhaps… is that what I am?

The havoc and wreckage of all that’s around me…
Did I survive it? Or did I cause it?

I am a Tornado. Unaware, yet dangerous, still.
I mean no harm; I just exist in the atmosphere.
A creation, a force of nature, I have no ill will.

But that doesn’t matter.
The damage is done.
No one dares mention my name.
They just hope I never come back again.

One of the deadliest tornados ever on record
hit the my home town, Oklahoma City one day.
It was a beautiful day, the third day in May…
which just so happens to be my birthday.

(©Written by sjhunt-bloodworth 08-01-09)