BOATS FLOAT

BOATS FLOAT

boats
float

boats
disappear

screws with my mind
the causality here

loaded with refugees
now
nowhere to
be seen

to some
a sadness
to others nothing
short of
palpable
relief

the sea so fraught,
so fickle
so
uneven
in its favour

bringing
horror to all
horror in sadness
horror in
relief

but worse, far worse
awaiting the survivor

no perfect storm at sea
ever came close
to this mother of
maelstroms

once
setting foot on land