Tsunami

By Myself contemplating a good metaphor
~Thanks KL, for the wake-up call
11-10-09


On seas smooth as glass
Belies a hidden undercurrent
The present hides the past
Calm belies the fervent

You think it's easy out there on your little boat
Just weather anything coming your way
Just withdraw and on you float
No Harbor needed in which to stay

Faint rumblings off in the distance
Taken as just another day
Drop ancor and show persistance
And on those waves you stay

Calm before the storm
Batten down the hatch
Waves anything but safe and warm
Sails anything but patched

Here comes the Tsunami
Can't hold back this tide
Heaven watch over me
There's nowhere to hide

Here comes the Tsunami
Anchor chains snapped
Here comes the Tsunami
Upon the shore to crash

Oars and rudders useless rendered
Fraility the consequence
Flashflood of pasts remembered
Drowning hope's deliverance

Never had a crew allow'd,
And fear the Captain's lost
Deeper and deeper the bow
Sinks into the froth

Waves against a wooden hull
Here comes the Tsunami
Praying for a miracle
The Unconfining of me

Pondering the Tsunami's origin
Pain more than any sea or river
Seeking Strength within
Praying calm to be delivered

Here comes the Tsunami
A world turned upside down
Here comes your Tsunami
In it don't you drown

~~~~~~~~ Thank you