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Matthew Left Us Devastated

October 7, 2016
By Your_Apathetic_Basketcase ELITE, Orlando, Florida
Your_Apathetic_Basketcase ELITE, Orlando, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
"Just remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off."
-Derrolyn Anderson

"Don't trust everything you see, even salt looks like sugar."

"The sea speaks more honestly... To those willing to drown." -J.D. Hard


The storm is close now.
I sit head down and backed up
Against the small wall.

It is Florida,
I hold my head in my hands;
Reverberating.

Your words I cannot
Comprehend, over roaring
Thunder and bracing

For impact as it rips
My home apart before my
Eyes. And as I cry,

The rain is pouring.
The trees are blowing fast, and
I am alone at home;

Nobody to save me.
I shake and whine, I scream
But I am okay.



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on Oct. 17 2016 at 2:45 pm
Your_Apathetic_Basketcase ELITE, Orlando, Florida
137 articles 0 photos 42 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Just remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off."
-Derrolyn Anderson

"Don't trust everything you see, even salt looks like sugar."

"The sea speaks more honestly... To those willing to drown." -J.D. Hard

I am going to be very blunt with whoever put on here "it made me laugh". That is so rude. Why don't you look up hurricane Matthew? It was a category 4 hurricane that killed many people. It isn't funny at all. I did this poem as a tribute to them. This is real, no it did not affect me but that is not the point. It went right into Haiti, the Bahamas, and then Florida where I happen to live. People had to rebuild their houses and start all over again. I do my poetry in characters, I did not feel this way during the storm, so I hope you can learn to grow up one day, maybe then we will talk about respect. Because right now, you just lost all of mine.