Young and helpless

She did not know what to do

Her father gone

Fighting in world war two

The war that should’ve never started

Will she survive?

Finding shelter where possible

But all houses were being raided

Home was not home anymore,

It was the soldiers home now

she must runaway

Her life depends on it,

Will she survive?

Her baby sister’s wails, echoed the woods

She had no possessions with her

Only the clothes on her back

But she must make it to her grandmother home

Will she survive?

The soft knock on the door

released the weight off of her chest

The two days of walking

Took the spirit out of her

She ran into her grandmother's arms

She finally felt comforted

Will she survive?

The radio’s warning rang in her ears

“Warning Vilnius, Belarus being taken over”

She ran to the rhubarb field,

Her family right behind her,

All of them hiding under the massive leaves

The Only thing that could be heard,

Was the whir of the helicopter blades circling above

Will she survive?

Each of them hiding on their own row,

Her mother told her brother to move into her row

Five minutes later...

Something falls where he was previously laying

On impact it detonates.

Does she survive?