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