Hideous Mouth Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Earth that opens its
Mouth
Hideous

Roars that belittle
A thousand and more
Thunders

Earth rent
Buildings falling
More rapid than
Sand-castles (iii)

Screams, people running
Here and there hands
Held to heads

From above
Not even wildest ants
Run that way

Ah! the day of wrath
It had to come
It came! (vi)

And it be manifested how
The pleasures of those
Who look
To the children grandchildren
And descent
Be vanified
All at one go

Laid flat and equal both extinct
And descent
In to the final extinction of
The Day of Wrath

In the flattening of the All
There be equality
There be justice for
The long extinct
Who now sit on the fence
Here
As others in descent
Face the Day of Wrath. (ix)