No, she said, it came too fast
Like a mountain running at the moon
Nothing could stop it
Not stone not metal not wood not flesh
We had only seconds as the sea
Had millennia to devour us
Pushing in like a quarry of death
Water and mud crushing life as I said
She points to where her house had been
All gone, she says, all gone
My husband, my children, all gone
She shakes her hands as she cries
And apologises for this unseemly
Display of emotion
© shaun patrick green 2012
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