He was heaving in the wind and rain
Of the sea, around him.
Voices,
That rattled
Over the wash of the sea
And the rise of the wind,
Frantic voices
Terrified and pleading:
“Save our souls,
“God, in heaven
“Save us.”
Lifeboats were pitching in the waves,
And bodies,
Many of them already face down,
Were kept afloat by their life preservers,
Some corpses
Butted against the sides
Of the lifeboats
That were jumbled together
In the surrounding sea.
~ DE BA. UE
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