Dark Futility

Black oil gushes forth

Deep down upon the ocean’s floor

The passion and desire aroused by your presence

Now replaced with sadness and disbelief

Value diminished by damages reeked

Black waters gather swiftly

Upon the surface of the ocean

The emerald green so well known to the eye

Tarnished and stained by the poison spewing below

Panic ensues and frustration lingers amid the masses

Mankind wrestles the overwhelming power of nature

Black waves move toward the shores

Pushed along by the winds and currents of the ocean

White sands are blackened

Ocean creatures die as each wave laps

Marshlands begin to die in this black toxin

Man too wavers and suffers watching a future die

Black fear pours forth upon the Gulf

Casting its shadow on the lives, the waters, the land

Caring not who it robs; Caring not what it takes away

Tears flow on the faces of those who can only watch

Tears flow for what is lost

Tears flow for what will never be again

Black death spews relentlessly forth

All the money will not turn it back

And time waits for no one and nothing

Time will allow black death to spread

Time will make for a halt

Time will cover the land scars

But never those deep in our heart

Black waters, black sand, black death all around

Time ticks on and away

Man struggles against the chains of failure

Blackness, darkness edges forth

Measure by the ticking of the clock

And still we wait for a miracle.

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