A Blinding Light Shines

All is quiet in this town
The residents left long ago
Leaving in a hurry
Leaving all they couldn't carry
No looking back
When the government built it
No one knew it would fall
Now it was not safe
But quiet it certainly was
A new resident has moved in
The stench of death
It is everywhere
For even tho they ran they couldn't run fast enough or far enough
Nor could they in the next town or the next
The only movement now, that of the clouds in the sky and the breeze on the trees
Nature reclaiming bricks and mortar
Street turning to pasture
New life finds a way
Old memories fade away
On the horizon a blinding light shines bright
A glimmer of hope?

There's always hope...