Emotional Quake

Below a calm sea upon young innocent eyes

Quake shifts ocean floor young eyes experience displacement

Merely a ripple traveling across ocean and time

Submerged painful feeling moves unnoticed

Until rising upon shallow waters in aging adult

Tsunami emotion climbs many times the height of man

Child long gone, adult powerless

Tears flow and flow and flow

Loss unfathomable, sadness unstoppable

I am swept along drowned by an event so long ago

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