Ashes

Author's Note: I just finished Catching Fire Suzanne Collins and I'm beginning the final Hunger Games book, Mockingjay.  This piece is titled "Ashes" because Katniss, the main character, was just taken out of the games and told that District Twelve, her home, has been destroyed by bombs and flames.

I walk

On

what used to be life on earth

Into

the dark cloud of dust and smoke

Upon

the rocky rubble and destroyed belongings

Through

the abandoned city where only silence stays

Now I weep and mourn over

All lives taken

All houses destroyed

All happiness captured

Everything I once had

Gone

Now and forever

all that's left -

Ashes