As the land of the rising sun lowers
Shaking hands with land and waves
.
Running stares as bare beating feet
Dazed in this haze of disbelief
.
Towns unable to swim quickly drown
Lifetimes of living and forgiving
Turned upside down,
.
Radiant waves of emotion
Wash in from the ocean
Repossessing seaside towns,
.
On the roofs Orchestrated heads
Dismay floating away the dead
Above and below the ground
.
Wailing walls of mothers
Religiously search for sons
Neighbors and daughters,
.
Honorable Father ask Gods
To stop pitiful heart crying
Long enough to die trying
.
Never to bud in Japanese red mud
Old and new loves fly high above
On the wings of a Japanese dove
.
This taste of disaster
Is sadder inside the
Cotton covered mouths,
.
Grace from their face
Replaced in the graves
Placed in the level ground
.
The families not near
Not here, not anywhere
Not anymore,
.
Lie’s in their mind hide
The truth in the rubble
From yesterdays past,
.
88 year old grandmother carried on the
Character of a granddaughter’s back
Sacred memories carried in a muddy sack,
. .
God save this girl and her world
From this angry sea’s attack
In gods name we of all nations ask.
