After the flood

photo by Alex Howitt

After the flood

An emotional flash flood
leveled a demure life’s terrain unrecognizable
as vast shoreless oceans course
void of reposing lapping island sands

 
oh there had been stifling
breathtaking reign before,
deluge washed out burning bridges

understanding iced veins pulsing
like flowing glacial fields
carving morphology
leaving emotive writs strewn
like ancient hieroglyphic's
homage paid to the catastrophic
floods of yore

latter days came cleansing rain
as gentle as fragile hope
often swept away
exposing abandoned traces ;
after the rain it becomes apparent
it’s the little things that erode away the soul

lasting hieroglyphic scars leave vestige
a lonely heartache‘s indelible dominion
detailed surface contour ,
breaks and stains ,
invisible hints ,
memories only in the eyes of the beholder

as flood waters subside
massive erosion had cut through
remnants of restless regret
benumbed by near drowning
receding symmetry
eroding into a meager incarnation
of what once was

after the flood
leaving a heart
of channeled scablands
earthen essence dispersed
like dust in the wind
down wind
a barren unrecognizable reclamation

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