Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Witness to a Hurricane II

The rain of a hurricane
Does not fall
Nor does it slant; 
It slices horizontal, 
Cutting like shards of glass;
Tastes of salt, 
So gritty with debris
I bleed.
It is a flood shaped 
Like a circling maelstrom
Boiling over the brim. 
 
The winds of a hurricane 
Are not just air streams
But lashes from the whips of the Furies
Exacting punishment for the sins against the sea.
Those gales scream like Sirens 
That drive sailors insane.
  
The eye of the hurricane
Is the Eye of God, weeping.
But blinded by tears and the rampage.

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