Tsunami

the sea with one sweep of its tides rises towards the sky a great shifting of the sand as it slides away from where the sleeping lie the thickening seam of the edge of the earth widens, like spilled blue black ink spreads darkens the dawn as some begin to stir their dreams fading and loosening like the skin a snake sheds they rise to nourish the land they give to a beggar's hand yet the morning is black, no view of the sun waves rush forward, asking of anyone who might dare who might dare on the surface of the waters a silver sliver of light, although a bloodless slaughter turned day into night