the liquid that drips from your runny sink,
the stuff that rushes out of your showerhead in the morning
is the same force pummeling Japan.
Water is incredibly destructive.
It's tossing the cars around like they're toys.
It's crushing buildings like they're made of Play-doh.
It's making the casualty count creep higher higher higher.
8.9 magnitude earthquake.
Waves 30 feet high.
88,000 missing as of yesterday.
But numbers like that don't impact us like the water impacted them.
We're safe at home,
safe to cover our mouths in disbelief,
safe to watch the reports, read the numbers, scan the articles.
Safe in Minnesota like that, we cannot comprehend.
Tragedy brings realization of our vulnerability.
No cache of missiles, no store of nuclear weapons,
can stop water.
This was the first tsunami that could be followed above air-sight.
I'd hate to be that pilot,
seeing the destructive waves loom closer to land
and being helpless to do anything but watch.
*fistbump*
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