Wake Poem by Jason Caporaletti

Defiantly she walks through each new place,
careful not to stop long or look back
at ruined landscape trails she dare not face,
Where with each sharp heel’s lift the earth would crack.

Seductively she sways through each new land,
but if you choose to welcome her beware.
The rewards, deep ravines and pits of sand
as she moves on, lest she become aware.

Eventually she’ll walk the globe around
and to a place she’s been before return
to witness her own wake of ravaged ground.
Of her destructive legacy she’ll learn.

Then divine punishment she will endure,
to live forgiven, awake and made pure.