Torn Apart

Radioactive blossoms,

shifting plates

and 15 meter waves

leave a path

of death and destruction,

taking and changing

the people who live—

lived there.

Buildings

have collapsed around

the heads

of those unable

to escape,

the victims

who never knew what

was coming.

Water washes over

the ruins

and shells

of people and

their livelihoods,

wiping 

this metropolis

off the maps.

Wrapped bodies

of students and 

teachers

lie on the 

floor of a gymnasium,

too many dead

for those alive

to take care of.

Families separated

never to see each other

again as a whole;

they are torn apart

like the country.