The Water Force. Poem by Meena Somasundaram

the ease and flow
with the ebb and high
through the tide and wave
comes the sea to the land
pushing out a lot of shells
pulling in a fair amount of land
the daily affair continues so
with the flow and blow
coming in and going out
there be as low acquisition
an inch by inch tracking
that which goes on for years
why not for centuries together
the water being a powerful force
attributing a claim in the move
configures the land by lengths
enabling a larger water mass
as against the land proportion
paving the way to an extinction of life
though not to be envisaged in the near future
but being a possibility in the next century