tsunami

in a dream,

I saw the water rising,

I felt it’s power,

ripping and pulling,

breaking and destroying,

smashing and killing;

swallowing everything

in its path;

I awoke,

gasping for breath,

overwhelmed by the sheer

magnitude of it all,

terrified by the raw power,

overcome by the suffering;

you asked me what

was the matter,

just a dream, I whispered,

a bad dream,

about the future;

when? you asked;

soon, I replied.

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