The Tide Calls

The tide calls 

it beckons hearts 

it soothes souls 

it will encompass you within its salty wrath 

give you praise, accept you 

and then spit you back out. 

You won't know what's hit you. 

You will be just another grain of sand 

the one that didn't get washed away, 

but you will with the next high tide. 

Like a timer counting down the seconds until detonation 

like a timer counting down the seconds until climate change does us in

like a timer counting down till the end.

the tide calls me.

now.