Julianna May

        My flesh is on fire.
And my lungs are desperate.
        My family is killed,
                             One by one,
While I stand and watch.
        The ground rumbles
And my friends are swallowed
                            Into the belly of the earth.
        Spiders crawl out of every crevice.
Someone is hunting me down.
        And I’m on my death bed; lying
                            All by myself.
But, I think, what I’m most afraid of
        Is that I will give up on
Struggling to survive. And one day
                            I’ll take my life.