Can't leave without checking
Fumes might leak without breaking
Longtime before the neighborhoods crying
Screaming for help! the fire is burning!
Wailing sounds here comes the rescuers
Dealing off dark smokes and red fires
Hose whose losses downed drowned on saving water
Treasured things and memories turns to ashes
Too young to understand the surrounding fear
Questioning why we had to evacuate?
Hearing warning siren seems so near
We need to move out safely from this tore down house!
Moving miles away from commotion and stress
Cometh to shelter to my Mother's friends house
Failing to remember the looks of her face
But won't forget her long dark hair and her warming grace
Now turmoil has finally receded
Leaving not knowing the temporary address
Wondering how her life could be?
I just learned recently, She died with incurable disease...
No matter how young we were back then
We're grateful to take refuge in her home
Spending the time playing together with her two sons
Asking myself... Where are they now?
