What A Force!

What a day it is outside!

Sitting indoors hearing the lashing rain,

The wind pounding on the window frames,

Rattling the doors, pushing the bricks to their boundaries

The fences rattling outside

Moving from side to side holding onto their last pegs

Grabbing on for dear life

We watch on hoping and praying they don’t fall or come crashing down

We are snuggled inside, nice and warm and dry

Thinking of the people outside working, and facing up against the wind

The rain and the cold

Holding their own on the ground fighting the force that is the wind

Determined to move the earth from the bottom up

Battling through, with its war like cries, screaming through the hills

Wailing through the alleys never stopping,

And taking whatever is in its way and daring to prevent its path