Showing posts with label tsunami. Show all posts
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Monday, August 17, 2026

The Blue Wave


The Blue Wave
is coming—
not a whisper,
not a warning,
but a rising tide
that no wall can hold.

It will crash against the shoreline
of corruption and lies,
tear through the barricades
of privilege and power,
and leave the old machinery
of greed exposed
beneath the salt and sand.

We are done
with crumbs dressed up as feasts.
We are entitled to the whole table—
the bread,

the meal,
the dessert,
the cocktails,
the dignity of knowing
that what we build together
belongs to everyone.

And we are awake now.

Even the infants
seem to be asking:

What kind of world
are you leaving us?

You take our children,
our futures,
our trust—
turn them into experiments,
then send us the bill
and call it freedom.

Are you kidding us?

Do you care about anything
beyond power,
profit,
and the machinery
that keeps your name
at the center of everything?

We see you.

We see the cracks
beneath the polished speeches.
We see the games.
We see the rigged promises,
the distractions,
the endless spectacle.

And we are no longer hypnotized.

We are not children.
We are not props

in your theater.
We are not going to surrender
our streets,
our neighbors,
our schools,
our voices,
or our country
to fear.

You can shout.

You can lie.

You can rage at the microphone
until your voice is nothing
but static.

But the people
are still here.

And we are louder.

You are not a king.

You are not the country.
You are not the future.

You are a man
standing against a tide
that has finally learned
its own strength.

So go.

Go quietly or go shouting.
Go wrapped in slogans,
go buried beneath excuses,
go wherever yesterday's power
goes when tomorrow arrives.

But understand this:

We will not kowtow.
We will not disappear.
We will not be distracted.
We will not be afraid.

The Blue Wave is rising.

And this time,
we are the shore.

 

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Tsunami

And the waves come.
The wave comes.
The wave pulls up its skirt
puckers its lips
drawing them in
leveling their dare
insatiable.

And the waves come.
The wave comes.
The wave bitch slaps
blackened hearts
panting for a gentler tap.
Tempting fools and bullies. As it
cracks facades, splits foundations sucking out their essence,
until their base, isolated harbors, scream no more.

And the waves come.
The wave comes.
The wave roars, devastating coastlines
tossing mettle at will. Striking and fierce
winking at the blue moon
as it tallies their cheek
on its terrible shores.

©Connie DeDona 11-02-12

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