Shane Zhao Poet Free verse

It's All Ok 17-12-24

Crack!
A violent ocean wind 
has trampled furiously
over a collection
of coconut palms,
demolishing them 
like bowling pins.

Now overturned,
the roaring current, with the wind as his accomplice 
reaches out with writhing turmoil,
blinding the skies with darkness.
(Pinpricks of light shine).

The ocean rips the coconut from its tightly woven bed,
rearing open its gaping mouth
to condemn it to an eerie fate;
swallowed beneath an ineffable weight.

Strangely, it yielded to the monstrous waves.
Like feathers in the breeze, it simply let 
the ocean bear it, further and further from the shore.
Only a crack could sink it,
yet the sea despite all its might, was impotent.

And- perhaps- the coconut knew-
that as sure as nature has torn down its house,
it must also guide it to new lands
where it could root and make another home,
anew.

Waiting for the sea to quell itself,
the coconut passes the time
by counting the stars.

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