Our Tsunami

The force of Mother Nature

Has washed upon our shore

With a fierce, hellish fury

Like we've never seen before.

Homes and businesses flooded

By tens of thousands, maybe more

The cost, up in the billions

But we have lost so much more.

The beauty of the new and old

Wiped out in this storm's path

Some completely blown away

By Hurricane Katrina's wrath.

From Florida towards the North

She has wreaked Her havoc

But, of those "things" destroyed,

Most all can be built back.

But when someone's life is lost

They will be gone forever

There will be no second chance

To heed those warnings, never.

For some there was no option

"Wrong place at the wrong time"

But many who "rode it out"

Won't have that choice next time.

It may take weeks, months, or years

To clean up and to rebuild

But the void left by some losses

Will never heal or be refilled.

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