Billionaire's Beach

Master of theater It has performed For millennia Never missed a scene No entrance fee Required Not even on Billionaire’s Beach. A crack of explosion Is deftly performed When two waves meet, Crash hard, locking Horns, like an Ancient gunshot And then it passes So nonchalant It rescinds, advances Prehistoric and new Violent and calm All at the same time It reminds me that It fights against itself, Like humans do. Tiny joys, archaic Tragediеs, oil slick woes Climate change maladiеs The ocean doesn’t care Because it knows it Will be there Forever. Until it splits into A trillion tears Cried from the Cornea of God, Propelled back Into time The ocean laughs At sea scum. It is A billion times More powerful Than Tesla and Silicon Valley More powerful Than oil spills Plastic bags And sewer filth From Venice. Fuzzy fizzy White, glossy Foamy frothy Sparkling surf, Where fish flirt Across the stage Of another wave And I stay On the sand So far away Half enraptured Half in love Half in awe And so afraid