She had the dream again
The last day of normal
When the ordinary man
Finished his boat
Her skin was the color of the sky before rain
Before rain came down
She had been a towering
Queen
A river of life with eyes clear resilient
This was the nightmare she could not untangle–flash flood had been a meaningless
Term in an endless
Skein of days
Water.
The color of her skin, her eyes
As tall as she was beautiful
Invincible
They had all believed they were
Invincible
Until…
The man/little man
Holed up in his boat
While the fearless laughed
This world will never fall
But the sky might
And by the time they knew
The world was already
Swept away