Night Mares

The turbulence crept across
the lofty dark field of clouds
obscuring the heavenly bodies
above and moved with inexorable
force that nature endorsed, to
perform its vast orchestral din,
thunder tumbling with
ferocious menace into the
unaware sleeping minds below
like a herd of feral horses
unleashed in the vastness of
the firmament featuring 
a nightmare of urgent fury.
Rolling drumrolls of thunder
in relentless waves partnering
lightning forking the skies
illuminating bedroom interiors
makes for restive sleep and
anxiously barking dogs as
uncertain how they should
view the implied threat as
the humans bidding them hush.