Nature's Fireworks

I

lie awake

watching

the flash

and

flickers

of

lightning

illuminating

my room

in

irregular intervals.

I

count

1...2...3...

CRACK!  BOOM!  CRASH!

Thunder

reverberates

through the cloudburst -

rolling through the night

rolling through my windowpanes

rolling through my heart.

The

incessant

rumbles of thunder

match the

boom-boom-boom

thumping

of my

heart.

I

pray

that each

flash and boom

is

the last...

the finale.

Eventually

the storm

recedes

and

I find

peace and sleep.