A Storm At Sea Is A Storm In Me

A storm.
The waves fall and rise. They rise and fall. 
A storm of death and destruction and I am at the shore, picking up the broken pieces
              Of a ship
                      Of a sailor's dream
                             Of a child's lego piece
                                     Of hope. 

I never knew water can burn so much
I never knew it can tear at my insides
I never knew the waves can swallow me whole
              All while I'm out on the sand, dry, sunny, safe. 

I once was the captain of that ship
And that ship
was my home
Now that ship is at my footsteps,
shattered in pieces. 

It lost the storm. 
It died in it
With its sailors 
And its legos
And its hope.

And the world was watching.
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