The Floods of Lude

One year had past since the last time
Lude was hit with the worst flood.
The ones who remained
had often envied the dead who could
bury their memories with them.
The terror that fell after had made them construct
walls of concrete all around Lude.
Elda who had tried very hard to hold Lude together
sensed the same excrutiating pain come back,
she wrapped herself along the great wall and squeezed her eyes shut-
it was happening again , this time much worse
than the last time. As if the ocean had receded just so that
it could hit back with more force. Elda let the electric currents
that the ocean was generating go through her. She knew
that there was no escape from the seconds that followed
the first collision to the time she would
hold a destructed Lude.