Living Waves

Waves curling into a gentle foam gathering round coral and rock breathing into the earth’s sand and stone grey fog holding forth on the other shore there soft mists spray across the Bay seals bark by the wharf and dive for fish today a gentle day of nature’s force Yet the waves on a far away island with a cruel display of deadly energy rolling deeply into the streets and towns moving with a raging force lashing winds and waves roaring sounds drawing with its living force an angry curling foam crushing trees, animals, man and homes No forgetting nor forgiving the forces by a universe that sends devastation even onto what the earth bestows