Poem: Breaking Of Dawn

Breaking Of Dawn

Boarded up windows
Broken down trees
Strong winds blowing
Bringing Jersey to her knees

Homes left battered
Power shut down
Shiver in darkness
Flooded downtown

And this hurricane pounded like it never would stop
The ocean’s tide rising, is it ever gonna’ drop?
People lost everything and everything is gone
Sit here just praying for the breaking of dawn

Sea Bright and Asbury, Ocean Grove and LBI
Atlantic City’s buried and gas in short supply
Someone is crying and a handful were lost
Billions in dollars; too high human cost

Boarded up windows
Broken down trees
Strong winds blowing
Bringing Jersey to her knees

Homes left battered
Power shut down
Shiver in darkness
Flooded downtown

But Jersey will find itself in the coastline’s rebirth
The homes be restored; the boardwalk unearthed
These people have fortitude enduring in length
You can knock us down, Sandy, but we will return in full strength

And this hurricane pounded like it never would stop
The ocean’s tide rising, is it ever gonna’ drop?
People lost everything and everything is gone
Sit here just praying for the breaking of dawn

Copyright SGW 2012