After the Hurricane

We had the beaches.

No better beaches anywhere.

Never gonna be the same.

The hurricane came and sat awhile.

Winds tumbled everything upright down.

Brought the sea up into the town.

Now fields full of splintered wood

Piled rubble and wrecked appliances.

Never gonna be the same.

People lost.  Lives scattered.

Bodies bagged and in a van.

Can't know our pain.

Our town is gone.

Our lives are gone.

Never gonna be the same.