A Wonderful, Beautiful Day
It might be a wonderful, beautiful day -
sun shining and sand warm and gleaming underneath your feet.
Someone turns a radio on; you hear sweet music play.
Palm trees sway as if in rhythm to its beat.
Loved ones are with you. Could you feel more complete?
In the midst of life so filled with joy and calm,
you think that melancholy never here could be.
Something changes in the atmosphere. You feel a qualm.
Thirsty for souls, death rolls in hideously. Though you flee,
the tsunami is unstoppable. Many loved ones perish in the sea.
May 17, 2018 For Broken Wing's Contest: A Poem About Death
Theme: in the midst of life
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2018
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