Tsunami

• Joseph Barclay, Grade 10, Holy Trinity Lutheran School -
• Poetry
• 2018

Excellence Award in the 'Write Along 2018' competition

Shall I compare you to a tsunami?
You’re so disastrous, keeping me awake.
You make me tremor, like Nagasaki.
There’s a wave in my heart, making it break.

You hit with a force, it can be fatal.
Your hatred is so scarce and gigantic.
I need to be rescued, it’s so painful.
Feels like I’m sinking, I’m the titanic.

I’m flushed, there’s a multitude on my mind.
You’re so destructive, making me submerge.
It’s so hard, trying to keep it in line.
I contemplate, I’m literally on a verge.

It feels like I’m getting hit with a gust,
And everybody leaves me in the dust.