Sea of Bitterness

The footprints on the sand

By the edge of the waves

Are saved once by luck

Before her greedy hand

Shifts the sands blank

Under the glaze of moon

The waters come alive

The Sea swallows up the lost pier

And recollects her treasures

Rolling them into a belly of deep

But still, she yearned for land

She longed for the world beyond

For something more than sand

So she stretched her body

To eat and eat just a little more

Season by season, year by year

Her ferocious appetite grew

She relished the acres of grass

The trees topped her meals

No walls could hold her back

She laughed as the people cried

Every decade was a royal feast

There were houses, near and far

Cars and boats and trains and bikes

She riled her currents up to all

But the young grew old and wise

Torrents of rain came in anger

She lifted her arms wide and open

Smashed her fists onto their towns

And ate them as they left

When the hurricanes took over

And the world fell quiet

When floods swept the plains

Finally, she caressed her dear Earth

Here and forever more

Under blood red of elder morning