The calm summer day
The sleepy bay
The still yellow sun
The tourists’ fun
The age-old palm trees
The longed-for breeze
The constant tide
An Indonesian seaside
The raised eyebrows
The exclaimed wows
The changed sea horizons
The blaring of sirens
The first terror-struck scream
The threatening waves agleam
The crowded escape
The approaching shape
The majestic wave king
The rumbling and shaking
The chaos of everything
The breaking news
The recovery crews
The world-wide shock
The remains of buses in the dock
The shattered boat on the bridge
The survivors sharing porridge
The wide-eyed television watchers
The weary eye-balling the waters
The sunrise over the calming ocean
The yellow, red, and pink dawn perfection
The wide spectrum of human emotion
An unlikely hope’s salvation
The passing of time
The repopulation climb
The tentative Europeans
The new island routines
The moonlit quay
The mental replay
The future’s obscurity
The Indian Ocean tsunami.
