The Storm

The hot breasted sea Gave urge to it Its hot passion free The wind expanded And all night The currents swell Till daybreak and alarm. With frazzled hair And frantic hands Her splayed protruding teeth Gnashed at coastline And puffed towards the land And we with baited prayers In silence waited For the grey clouds to cease Menacing the day. The sky in torrents opened The sun bolted away There was a roar A twirling dance Before the death of trees The scattering Of transient things And then came the flood Of anger and disbelief Then came the horror and grief. The water gutted everything Broke the walls Took the crops with the wind And hills and coast in shambles Seem desolate Like chaos before all beginning And I among the weeping Pondered the wrath of wind Pondered the single dead And waited for the new world That such disaster brings.