Natural problem
Is worldwide catastrophe
Leave no one behind.
Today's rain is more of a doom,
But why not just spare my own room?
You just poured in without a shame
So, who will then take this your blame?
Tho', where I live is a jungle,
My life needs not be this bungled,
Because this flood was just a lot,
This is not just based on my thought.
Its' anger was unleashed too pure,
Though, not only to us, the poor,
Those at Lekki bought their own shares,
Their riches brought them their scares.
Tho' pained, but not by my soaked book,
But by the food I was to cook,
They were all soaked by this mean crook,
That turned my room to a deep brook.
My hunger cried, as the rain poured,
Everything swam, as the sky mourned,
Hunger came, as salary cried,
Debts begged, as the month-end sighed.
From a comet’s tail, like pepper on a meal
sprinkling down on the land
upon the earth, the contagious death
the cleansing of God’s hand
Genocide made, from a periodic plague
swelling numbers of the dead
when life departs, with heavy hearts
of the times that lay ahead
From rich or poor, it seeks for more
to feed upon its evil
with terrible pain, of who were slain
by the horrific cosmic devil
Tearing the will, a numbness feel
no one is safe to hide
a celestial throw, of prevailing woe
on the comet’s trailing ride
Like a skyward beast, soaring from the east
a mighty dragon span
its subtle wings, and deadly fangs
and fire to decimate man
The invading spell, straight out of Hell
that curses all who live
their bodies writhe, to stay alive
and the suffering they give
Bringer of death, taker of breath
destroyer of life around
deliverer of ill, killer of will
burrier in the ground
With bodies spent, from furnace sent
from static streak on high
the festering cull, deflesh the skull
as the comet passes by
great north burning free
smoke from sea to sea to sea~
murky clarity
creeks overflowing
dangerous late summer rains
flood waters churning
Written September 7, 2022
The earth quakes with fear.
It sweats brooks.
My face is made of stone.
One look and you turn to stone.
The fire in my eyes burns forests down.
My kicks are quick as lightning.
I punch like rain; you can't avoid me.
My fists are made of iron.
I don't wait until they get hot to strike.
I break new ground as if it were a nose.
It crunches against my knuckles.
I uppercut deep. Lava gushes on impact.
The earth revolves around me before lying in mire.
It was me against the world.
Now I'm a world beater.
Passive in aggression all melted into the wax
The fire isn't burning the flame is not a match
Depression is a reason for those who can not hate
The wind it isn't moving but the chimes reverberate
Active in this searching of this mate for your soul
The ground it is trembling opened up and swallowed whole
Submission from intention proves the guilty only lie
The world is unforgiven there's no God within our sky
bmdavey@2/7/21
I’m sending out this message
To warn everyone
About the future of earth
The cities is about
To be covered with water
The polar ice caps
That’s be frozen solid
For thousands of years
Is melting
The melted ice
Is turning into water
Causing the sea levels to rise
With sea levels rising
The water begins to cover land
Before it’s over
We'll Probably end up
Living on mobile cities
That floats on water
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Rain-Desperate Times
Days and weeks of rain
has come down hard and fast
desperate times prevail
I climb with you Tsunami Wong on the wild ride
Over whitecaped waves rising in sheets of blue
Surfer girl towering eighty feet high with style
Fearless on the board, gracefully balanced
Arms stretched wide to hug the sky
Rolling seas take you to the crest of beauty
Breathless, tumbling together to the shore
Flooding my mind with wet ocean dreams
Dimpled cheeks, black hair flowing in the wind
Take me away to your depths but not to death
And when we crash inevitably on the ground
I want nothing more than to rest with you
Covered in warmth, blanketed in love
Tsunami empowered, tucked in your arms forever
Natural Disaster
You have the compassion of a blizzard and the patience of an avalanche
Your derision trickles like a monsoon.
You drown me in disdain.
Flooded by your expectations, my capacities sank.
You are my natural disaster.
You are a hurricane of indecency, a tornado of contempt.
You are a Typhoon raging over my failings.
My army of good intentions surrenders to your gales of dissatisfaction.
You blow me away as a gnat.
You are my natural disaster.
The earth quakes from your judgment. You are predictable like a fault line.
We are a mud slide pouring into a chasm.
Me first, you shove
Into our crevasse of discontent, we fall together.
You are my natural disaster.
You are lightening. I have no ground.
The warmth of our love you kindled
into solar fission and into scorched conflagration you drove.
Your future is hot. Mine unwritten.
You are my natural disaster.
_ _ _
JD Zoller. (C) 11-30-2016
My heart comes with tornado warnings
and my mind is shaken up by earthquakes.
My eyes should come with flash flood signs because baby-
Can’t you see?
I am a natural disaster.
You make me want to tear myself apart-
Build myself back up, cementing you into the foundation.
You make my soul wear a lock and I hid the spare key under your tongue.
Those butterflies you put in my stomach are really just elephants with wings taped on.
You make me feel as warm as molten gold
And cold as the sharpened rain.
But right now looking at you in this light under the stars
That are hiding behind clouds,
through the snowflakes in my lashes and our crinkled eyes
I realize why storms are named after people.
The fierce tidal wave
Roaring raw
Sweeping as it goes.
The outburst of ruin
Deadly heat
Welcomed by thunder.
Fire and brimstone rain
Unquenched burns
Natural killing.
Natural they are...
Disaster
May God save our souls.
VERSE FORM - LUNE
Demolished cities; citizens panic
Liquidation is here; leaders are manic
Casualties increase; hope is diminished
Faith is lost; Life is finished
natural disaster
lip trembles
an earthquake of a heartbreak
she held on so tight
but she was blinded by the lies
then it all came crashing down
bones shiver
a blizzard colder than his heart
she tried to stay warm
but she was frozen in fate’s path
then the snow piled higher and higher
mouth goes dry
a drought sucking up all hope
she was always optimistic
but she couldn’t take the heat
then it all turned to dust
eyes flood
a rainstorm threatening to drown the fish
she kept her head above the water
but she got caught in the current
then the waves took her under
stomach swirls
a tornado of emotions
she was so strong
but she fell for his charm
then the wind destroyed it all
it’s unavoidable.
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