“Ashes” (Pompeii)

Ashes are falling

Down from the sky

Ashes falling like snow

From the mountains

Down the valley below

Ashes are falling

On me

As the sky thickens

The earth trembles

And the song on the wind

Silences those below

In the distance

I can hear their screaming

Cries for help

As they’re suffocating

Ashes falling from the sky

Ashes falling like snow

Covering those down below

Nothing else remains