Lightning
Written June 1999.

The sky darkens
A bolt of lightning
Flashes from the sky
It looks like a slim white branch
Attacking
Splitting the Earth into two

It blinds
Coming out from dark clouds
A wild white flash
That ends as quickly as it starts

Followed by a thunderstorm
Deep rumbling
Splitting ears into two
It crashes
Like a plank of metal
Hitting another
It doesn't break
It bends

Then it's over
Except the rain
That pours down
Steadily
Column by column
Drenching all in its path