Horizon swaying in the distance

Warring infinites of gray and black

Salt spray swirling in my lungs

The floor keeps a layer of bilge

As indiscriminate waves

Chop away at our sides

Our voices are subdued 

A reverence for our fortune

Rivers of pale-yellow shards

Arc up through the air

From the way of the shore

Splashes of visceral white

Alight the skies

Chasing the scorched earth

The home we had always known

From hard plastic benches

We watch the end

Of what we left behind

Ladders of divine firecrackers

Delayed palls of thunder

Then, a sustained flash of light

Bright and violent enough 

To strain the sight

A great reaching tower 

Of furious orange

Devours the land

As it stretches in hunger 

Towards the heavens

Then another

And another

Nuclear catastrophe

Falls like rain

Smothering pillars of ash

Bury it all in smoke and death

Enraged at our trespasses

The dark ocean casts us out

From aboard the ship’s safety

Carried on shockwave

A following swell swallows us

Takes a few of us under

Screaming and gasping

Rushing currents deafen us

Even fewer surface

Now sobbing and begging

My eyes twist frantically

In every direction

Distant destruction’s roar

And the indifferent deep I tread