Flight of the Flightless

It came from the sky; silence shattered as it fell. 

A domino unknowingly set by persons no longer present.

Tense silence followed in its wake.

Waves cascaded as it did; tumbling to Earth from beyond sight.

Eyes believed to be traitors despite the proof.

Readers dismayed at the hoax.

Suddenly stopping as resistance met; buried by itself.

Solitary soldier sped to a self dug grave.

Mistakes made by past echo present.

 

The aftermath was clear to see; chaos ran rampant.

Unbridled carnage as victims assessed and counted.

Down to the tomb.

Normality slowly returned; the damage cleared.

Cleaned the wounds the alien caused.

Effects returned from whence they came.

One attacker; two victims.

Casualties of an effect unwittingly triggered.

Discipline to prevent recurrence.

 

A moment's pause to understand; impossibility just occurred.

Happened in an instant.

Replayed to understand.