Alia's Realm

:: A Personal Blog - A Young Woman's Insight of Love & Life ::

Wednesday, December 29, 2004

All in 7 minutes.





They were talking happily in the front terrace.
Several members of their family just left in their new car.
They start turning on and playing with their new handycam.

Suddenly the ground is shaken.
A huge thunder marks the arrival of the first water wave.

They all run to the second floor.
In seconds, water fills the first floor.
They race upstairs before the dirty, brown water catches them.

Horrified, they look out the window.
The whole city has dissapeared.
Water is everywhere.
It's like a big river rushing just centimeters underneath their feet.

The water rushes in full force
destroying anything in its path.
Swallowing every person around.
They start to scream and cry in fear.
They wonder how their loved ones are doing.
Did they survived?
Or are they swallowed by the mad water flowing fiercely under their eyes?!

Nothing can be seen but water and water and water.

"Help... help..."
A weak sound is echoing from downstairs.
Someone is in the water, trapped between broken wood.
They tried to help, but the current was too fierce.

Suddenly, the water changes direction.
It's going back to the ocean.
The water has decreased slowly.
The water has made its mark on the city.
Houses are battered and empty.
Several people are clinging for life on rooftops.
A little boy is looking outside his window. Crying. Alone.

Just as they start to calm down,
from afar they see another huge tidal wave.
The water comes rushing back from the ocean,
as though it hasn't satisfied its anger.
The water level rises again instantly.
Gulping everything in its existince.

They are trapped.
The brown raging water catches their tears,
washing them away with their lost loved ones.

...

May God give them the courage to stay strong.
Amiiiien.