Tsunami Warning
April 16th 2011 18:42
Inhale…
Draw back the brackish waters
Briefly taking what you once gave so freely
Offering the world the wonder of stranded fish flopping on wet sand.
Exhale..
And the world is water…
torrents, sheets, pools, rivers, lakes, oceans of water,
a planet full of water.
Sometimes man forgets that the earth is 3/4 covered with water.
Never fear,
Nature is here to remind you
and none too gently.
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There was no use looking at it.
So she turned her back and walked.
She went out on to the beach–that wasn’t there yesterday.
She smiled at the wonders she had found.
“Look” she said excitedly to her husband.
“Not everything was washed away. “
“I found her bridle!”
Her husband,
who cared for his wife,
as he did no other living thing,
failed her utterly, nonetheless.
As she smiled hopefully and looked into his eyes
he dropped his guard and for an instant,
a look of dread briefly appeared on his face
and was gone just as quickly.
In that moment his wife was crushed.
It was as though the waves had come again.
She dropped the bridle in the sand
and walked on down the endless beach
crying silently now,
her husband shuffling close behind.
Somewhere behind them,
unburied,
lay the horse she loved for many years.
The horse that would never wear that bridle again.
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