Up From the Ashes

It has begun to erupt, slowly but surely the fuses are being flipped and the fuses are being lit. As discontentment seethes in the air, the faceless inhale deeply preferring this to the grainy smog. A few cough and sputter out of what has seemed like an endless coma. Hazy lines dance in front of most of the awakening eyes. Something is different, as the lucid bill hadn’t been paid and the dreams ended. Groping in a blur the only hope it seemed was to hold onto each other.
Something beat in each heart. It grew as vision slowly became clear. It pounded against the sternum as if it were about to send the vessel into cardiac arrest. The sight was endless it seemed, as if it made devastation seem like a warm Disney finale. The ground was covered in corpses, breathing out death with each snore. The stench was unbearable as a few found legs, and the pounding persisted.
The faces now began to emanate expression, mostly of shock horror and disgust. Yet the pulse kept screaming. It felt as if there were hands pumping the heart to come to life. It grew harder and louder as the huddled group stared blankly at their soot covered faces. Harder, and harder, it shoved and pushed, and pounded. Then it all of a sudden it stopped.
The silence was deafening, as a light breeze blew through the rusty atmosphere. Then in the stillness of mystery another sound began to trickle. The rhythm was almost hypnotizing as the frail heads began to slowly bounce along to the sound in utter bewilderment. Life began to fill there eyes and dignity began to cascade over their frames. They had awakened, and were beginning to see for the first time.
The only things on the ground were trumpets, and each one was inscribed with the names that flickered in there static cognitions. The only other thing flashing was a cross. LOVE had awakened them, it was time to get up.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity into man’s heart so that he cannot find out what God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11