User:Phalanx Actual/Remember when there was a tomorrow

"Stay safe... I love you," she couldn't keep her promise...

I'm alone in this place, there's no darkness... No light. All I have are my memories, those painful moments.

She went missing only a week later, I knew she was gone.

I got the call to go back to work only a week later, I couldn't leave our daughter behind, I can't leave little Erica alone... By the time I got somebody to watch her it was too late.

As I pulled myself up, time moved like a brid in the wind as I ran to work, by the time I got there all they gave me was a helmet and a rifle, the war came to my homeland.

The planes, a swarm of locusts passed over me as I ran back home, gunfire took the place of footsteps as I neared my house. The deafening cries of the swarm overwhelming. I made my stand on Maple street, now a thumb|300px|right|Remember when there was a tomorrow...boulevard of broken dreams.I rained bullets upon those who seeked to harm my country and took a stand for my fellow man.

As their guns, and their hearts stopped, I heard the beautiful notes from across the street. I watched as one I called friend, a blank, hollow look in his eyes as he strummed his instrument - his home, his family, his wife and son among the ashes of his home.

As I looked into the man who had died inside, his grey eyes welling with tears as he played a lullaby for his little boy. The tongues of fire reached into the sunset-drenched skies, all that was left of my country was the glimmer of a city of ghosts and glass.

They surrounded him as he played that heavenly muse, the perfect tones of his shattered dreams. He glanced at me and uttered one last word in his serenade...

"Go..."

I turned to my own home, I thrust down my door...

I ran into the darkness, with one thought in my head; where's my little girl? The man's beautiful strumming ended with the pull of a trigger that echoed through my darkened hallway His eternal sonata played over and over in my mind... Where's my little girl?

His goodbye to his family became the hope for my own as I climbed my own way to the heavens. As I turn the doorknob I see my little girl, an angel laying upon the floor. Lying on a reddened carpet, tears ran down my face as I picked her up, holding her close to my heart...

I hear her faint breathing as I rush back into the howling darkness, stay alive my angel.

My legs condemn me as pain tears at my stride, I rush to unlock the back door, my vision blurred with tears. My heart races as I make one last journey to keep this angel alive, hospital tent nears me as the damning winter winds chill my open wounds.

The white fabric walls flutter in the bitter breezes as I draw near, I hold my daughter tight as I sprint to the doctors... Everything went wrong, the locusts in the clouds scream as my heart sinks into my stomach, hellfire rises over me as the fluttering walls turn to ash.

A pulse of warmth pleases my skin as it burns my soul away, I let out one last scream to the heavens asking a simple question; Why has it come to this?

I see them surround me through my watery eyes, the flames burn away my hope. The shadows in the mist scream in tongues I cannot understand, I fall to my knees as my daughter holds me tightly.

I just wish I had more time... That man's goodbye soothes my soul as I prepare for my true journey, I only wish I was alone... I've failed my family, and as the beating of thunder begins, I use the last of my strength to face the flames, I just want to save my daughter.

Metal tears through my skin and spirit as I begin to know my end, the eternal sonata plays one last time - a lullaby to the forgotten. The pain I've never known pulses through my flesh and bone, but does not match the agony of my soul. Little Erica please don't let go, I fall to the ground of my homeland as those heavenly notes wash over my shattered soul, taking the pain away and pulling me into the true howling darkness, to never return.