You have the most beautiful blue eyes, she said. An unsettling silence took hold.
A great wave crashes into land, sweeps away at valleys and hills, and it creeps inland into towns; it drowns the world; only I remain dry, as I look at the brittle tops of the trees with my tired eyes.
From my throne of leaves I wade through the destruction,
A single tree on a hill survives, through my wet, sluggish clothes, I struggle on, wrestling the current, closer to the tree; but it was just a tree.