My Nightmare

Night after night I watch them die,

My children, my parents, my wife and I.

Crossing a pond in the dead of winter,

A skidoo roars by and the ice starts to splinter.

There’s nowhere to run.

Ice covers the sun.

We all fall through.

Into the water so blue.

I can see them now as they struggle for air.

Eyes filled with horror and then a blank stare.

We sink to the bottom,

We’re all going to die,

My children, my parents, my wife and I.