She awakens from a deep slumber
only to find her world,
of which she only knew,
had crumbled while she slept.
carnage, death, disease and helplessness
everything, seen through broken eyes
a black and white tomorrow lies feet away
from what once held a tremendous future.
with no one to trust but herself,
now a lonely, yet unfriendly companion.
extreme happiness was the past,
a beacon of hope raining through the fog.
it can be that way again.
"the clouds will pass and it will be another happy day",
she thinks aloud to herself
while she wanders the destructed streets
that she once knew as home.