Lost Everything Parts 1 & 2 and Storm Damage

Prelude:

The sea just kept on rising
Deep into the night

Time for survival
Was floating out of sight

Wind kept on lashing
With all of her might

Trees just kept falling


Lost Everything 1:


An abstraction for most

A reality for too, too, too, too,
Too, too, many

Lost.

Everything.

Everything.

Lost—gone

Lost Everything 2:

Dark Day – Cold – Low gray
Damp sky – Sullen – Deep Bone

Chill - Lost - Everything

Houses - Once Homes - Shells
Contents - Gutted By the Sea

Four Walls and a Roof
No warmth - No Light
No Comfort - No Rest

All - Lost

That beautiful - mostly serene
Ocean - outside - the door
Rose from long, long slumber
With a roar
Exacting a price for life
Along her shore

Echoes - of –

Lost Everything – in the sound of gulls


Storm Damage:

Big Maple blocked Main Street
We had to take another road
As we crossed Hylan Boulevard
The story started to unfold

A house shifted from its foundation
An old woman had tears like diamonds
Permanently dangling from her eyes

Four houses disintegrated
A father missing, a young girl had died
Nothing left of their home
But a basement flooded by the tide

Sanitation was loading dumpsters
Tropical showers fell
Mud caked the rubber of my boots
As I welcomed myself to Hell

We inspected all the houses
The yellows, the reds, and the greens
To a man and to a woman
The worst we had ever seen

Sandy came, she claimed a crane,
And proceeded on inland
Covering much of downtown Manhattan
With seawater, darkness and sand

Debris keeps on rising
From Tottenville to Rockaway
From Red Hook, Coney Island, Breezy Point
People have no place to stay

The storm damage is in the Billions
Causing hardship, pain and strife
Meaning nothing to Tony Laino
Or the tree that took his life.

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