Survivors Guilt

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TW: Gory, Death, Survivor Guilt, Malice Media
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The hurricane forecasted days in advance
overlooked by those who were born to rain dance.
They chalked their odds up to chance.

The first sign of the end of time
were the seagulls that wandered
too far from the shore.

Next came the floods
of buoyant bodies too close
to the shoreline.

The boy with eyes made of glass
stepped outside to bask in the sunlight
never came back.

A place once named and praised
became the hidden world of Atlantis
under the hand
of a known named hurricane.

The rich that lived on the mountain came down
and watched their poor friends drown.
If only they could have seen the lifeboats
that were never thrown out.

The bodies are buried to rest
under the debris of garbage
created by the locals probably
are nameless faces to be forgotten.

The coastline retired after
the moon had lost its power.
The survivors began to wonder,
why the ocean had punished
the living survivors?

Camera crews migrated
towards puffy faces and bloodied babies
memorializing their darkest day.
Reminding the survivors
to hold a little tighter to their babies
with remembered faces and names.

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Got to love doom scrolling
to inspire some wack-ass poetry.
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Have a wonderful day lovelies.

 Have a wonderful day lovelies

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