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Midnight War
1 min readSep 13, 2018
A woman screams of demons attacking
A man yells at her to shut up
Sirens blaring — the children wake in terror
it’s happening again — the fear grips us
As they take mother away
and the little girls screams — NO!!!
Flashbacks to a time long ago
we pretend it never happened
shuffled off to neighboring homes
in the middle of the night
like refugees escaping war
our home the battle ground
Images burnt in my mind
the old white police officer
walking up the stairs
a grandpa telling me it will be ok
it never was, not for long any way
“Don’t take her”
A little girl pleads; Mother is sick they say
it won’t be for long they claim
she comes home, and all is quiet
A woman screams of demons attacking
It’s happening again.
