Lightning

THOOM! CRACKLE!
Barks the drooling cloud
In the night sky above

Covered in metal
I take deep breathes
Before my first step
Onto a grassy rug

I've always been afraid of lightning
Scattered thoughts:
"I'm an idiot for coming here!"

KATHOOM!
Only another growl
Not a bite
You see
To check for any fear

I pull out my metal pole
With nervous hands
As if undoing the lock
Tying its chain

And that's when it barks! lunging at me
With an unforeseen fierceness
Tearing away flesh til it reaches my brain

And when my bodies burned to ashes
It stands over its feat
Sounding out a howl that shakes the grave

As an audience
Of nightly chirps and curious critters
Overt their anxious gaze