Ocean Floor - One Hundred Word #009 (#090)

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by NehpetsEnal

by NehpetsEnal

Ocean Floor

I was a majestic mountain

I was so tall. I could see above the highest clouds

I was so strong and believed myself to be a king

I know it's difficult for a mollusc to understand

I will try to explain if I can, you suck tight, it's a long story

Long ago I rose up from the ocean floor

Well in fact I was pushed and shoved

Actually, it was more like kicking and screaming

It was all volcanoes and earthquakes, a complicated mess

They relentlessly chased us from our salty resting place

To escape them we had no choice but to rise higher and higher

But for some of us, even the fluffy white clouds weren't high enough

And living up there was its own kind of hell, it seemed there was no escape

The salty ocean, would not give us up, without a fight to the death

It was in constant search of equilibrium, a constant war was waged

The ocean wasn't alone, it had an almighty God, the Sun on its side

The Sun was rich and powerful, the greatest source of energy in the solar system

It provided them with perpetual weapons of mass destruction

They sent tiny terrorists, disguised as minute water droplets

But when terrorists work together, they are the greatest power on earth

Like tears of death, they parachuted from the heavens above

And the war began, as grain by grain, they wore away the mountains

And carried us away via raging rivers, that forged valleys, and vales

Through which they slowly carried us as prisoners back to the oceans

That's how I became this blanket of silt, laying across the ocean floor