Fireworks at dawn

Tuesday, August 30, 2100

Although I didn’t sleep much today I was rudely awaken by the sound of what I thought were bombs going off.  It was 5 am when I heard the loud boom’s and shot out of bed myself.  Alone in the dark I sat on my bed shaking because I thought it was the sound of violence.  The sounds were so close that I was sure the violence was just around the corner.  After a few minutes of silence in my room and refocusing my eyes and my ears I noticed that my dark room was suddenly filled with light right before the boom’s, I gathered enough courage to go to the door to find that the sound was coming from fire works.  On the other side of the wall they were setting off fire works.  A single firework every minute for twelve minutes straight followed by two double fire works and one triple firework signifying 15 minutes had passed.  This went on for an hour as I stood in the doorway alone in silence.  We had heard the fireworks before but they always sounded far away, today they were on our street right behind the wall of the house.  In the dead of night the house lit up with the lights from the fireworks one by one they welcomed in the morning.