A new horror begins,

As a breach in the wall

The world’s bile surging through

As vessels sail dreamless  

Over the horizon

~

To be splintered, left listing

In the ink black swell

Tolls of  S.O.S. smothered

Beneath the clouded night sky

~

Large hearts wade frightened

From their neon-lit homes

To be crowned silent heroes

And made immortal by the storm

 ~

They live and gasp among the homesick

Staggering ashore

A kingdom’s fires still alight

In their unified

Pulse and stride