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Barnacles

Bubbling waves with water so blue

They call to me on the board I lie upon

A small white seagul perched on a booey as the water lapped upon it

It catches every fish it could find before the pelican does

 

Of course I smirk to myself at the simple action

 

The waters are calm and no waves could be seen

I came out here at first just to ride a wave

But it's so calm that even the clouds are minimal

Like a little child again I gazed up at the shapes

 

A elephant, a seal, a little boy on a tricycle

 

My mind was so far in the clouds literally

This caused me to lose my attention on the ocean

I couldn't see how the water was growing unneasy

I couldn't see how a huge bulge nearby was becoming a wave

 

A tsunami of the sorts

 

I didn't know that a earthquake hit not too far from here

But once I saw the rising everything I was tossed off the small board

I was so scared I couldn't concentrate on finding to something to hold onto

I couldn't swim on with the currents

 

I was struggling and near drowning

 

The seagul was now flying around my head as if to keep me awake

The cloud were pointing towards dry land but I could sea

The sea has became too strong for even I a great swimmer

It seemed that I suddenly drowned

 

All I could see was darkness

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Written by
the-fluffy-kit-on-fire
22 / F / American
Published
Sep 12, 2013
Lines·Words
25·250
Notes

Fictious but told in the first-person POV. I was told to write a poem about a natural disaster and a victim expieriencing it so I came up with this.

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