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Frighteningly

Sandals On a golden sandy beach. On a dusty dry footpath with warm air around your feet. Music. Spanish guitars play sounds so sweet. The evening light is warm and friendly, the night sky blends into the ocean as the waves lap at your feet. A stark sound, a whale crashing helplessly on the beach. Bird flight, low level their squawking screeching, nothing normal is here to let them feed. Tide rise, the ocean sounds darker with fiercer speed. It seems to be saying something but we don’t listen we just use it to fill our bellies with selfish greed. Night sky the moon hides behind the dark clouds. Rain comes out of nowhere and rain comes falling down so heavy the ground can’t cope and neither can the streets! People. People crying on flooded streets. Their homes now under water, along with their lives, their belongings, and their dreams. Nature. I hear it screaming in the winds. I stop and turn to face it and I see it look at me. Like a kraken raising an eye out of the ocean it wants me to know it’s upset with us, so upset indeed. Feelings. Scared now of forces we can’t control or see. The dark side of humanity still taunting and laughing at nature as nature turns around and glares at humanity so frighteningly!

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