Storms of Life

It’s kind of funny yet scary

How life can turn inside out so quickly

Storms of life come quietly at first

Then building to a thunderous

Assault on the senses

What was predicted was even worse

Than expected

Riding high on the clouds of hope

Then crashing to the ground like two inch hail

Shattered by crushing disappointments

And lost time

Updrafts of sometimes courage and flashes

Of broken promises like lightning

Bright and awesome but gone

In an instant of reality

Leaving the damages behind

Picking up shattered pieces of this life

Tossed about by tornadic winds of change

Sudden realization of what can’t be

Sending the heart to find a covering of protection

So it won’t be damaged anymore

Afraid now of being so vulnerable

To the loss of further storms

That it may never recover or be the same again.