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It's a poem about society v. nature, demonstrated through crabs :) |
| On a scar of sand so white A stain of rock scorched by burning light Where the smoldering sphere hijacks the days Sand crabs live in sandcastles built by crawling waves Scurrying up the shore, flattening into the sand, Creating coves along the living land. Beach long shelters are fossilized. Sun-baked dancers are hospitalized Due to a claw caught In a deep-sea knot Uprooted and drifted to shore To rest upon the asylums like décor And trap the trapping red-clippers Who travel along the scar like nippers, Waiting for a foot, Who has no eyes and will therefore put Its thick-skinned head into their trap Causing the clickers to click and snap And bite into the fruit. Who, on a walk so dissolute, Travels along the minefield of sand And destroys the citadels like the ocean’s hands Grabbing up the shore with salty claws Like an animal that digs with dirty paws But when the sun hides away, And the clickers find a place to stay, Away from the wet, black duvet That has made the dancers topple and spin It is the earth that has collected its win. |