Creative Writing - The Splitting Tree

Beams of connecting light met in the middle of the sky and the ground, leaving nothing but crashing sounds. The  wealthy lover and his lass stood in the rain and then, lighting struck. The rain poured, as if someone had a giant magnificent well in the sky, that dripped and dripped. The water fell like needles from the sky and blasted the face of the earth as thunder erupted. Boom! Crash! The lightning struck the tree that they were near, and their love for each other protected them from the wrath of death. They sought shelter, and ran with a dash of lightning in their step. When the storm was over there was nothing left, but a tree that was split in half, and just as far as I could see, there was no hope for them nor the tree.