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Water Wall


 

It started with a sight

Seep seep seep

Then there was a sound

Drip drip drip

Then there was the smell

Salt salt salt

Then I could feel between my toes

Wet wet wet

Then the roof was caving in

Dent dent dent

Then the walls collapsed

Hit hit hit

But the clock proceeded to

Tick tick tick

I could see through the window

Growing growing growing

The water was rising

Higher higher higher

We were trapped, I panicked

Run run run

I fled through the door 

Faster faster faster

And jumped in Rosaline’s car so we

Waited waited waited

For my parents to come

Please please please

And we waited but the water was attacking

Help help help

We couldn’t wait longer we

Sped sped sped

And my stomach dropped and I 

Screamed screamed screamed 

With all my heart with everything in me

Mommy mommy mommy

I convulsed and wailed

Daddy daddy daddy

But the tsunami swallowed them

Oh oh oh

And I never forgave myself

Never never never

The juice tasted of corpses that night

Agony agony agony.

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