{"id":118,"date":"2021-11-20T18:35:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T18:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-1\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2021-11-28T22:01:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T22:01:40","slug":"tsunami","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/tsunami\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yasmin Odeh<\/h5>\n

 <\/p>\n

A wave is all else in all ways.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In and out, back and forth,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and noisy,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

much like a brain<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u00a0possess;<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

it is fatally bruising.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rushes of torment<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

continuing to flood my conscious<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

cells<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and then my body,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

so severe\u2014enough to reach the surface<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

of me.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I browse around in confusion,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

seeking restitution.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Where is my recompense? Am I not\u00a0meriting<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

of it?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel shortcoming, my brain<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

malfunctioning.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wretchedness.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A critically damaged piece<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

of this world,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0despair worsens.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am in a quandary.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How can I extricate<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

myself<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

from misery?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

An intention was distant,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

but it is approaching,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

like a wave,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

a distinguished form:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

swifter and towering. It is dominant,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and it appears<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

to be exceedingly promising.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One departure shall be<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

glossed over, as many are.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This destination is favored<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and has been reached countless times.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After all, what is\u00a0near?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel an immensely powerful<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

tug<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

on my physicality,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

as if I am being hauled<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

out<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

of my own self.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am\u00a0floating\u2014levitating<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

in nothingness.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I entered outside inside,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

into darkness, within an abyss.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The solution\u2019s efficacy?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I need not know nor care.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A colossal adjustment<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

is to fathom and a transition<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

of authentic substance.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Soreness. An enormous migraine,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel, like neuralgia. But how?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My body<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

in my peripheral,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I presumed this to be\u2026<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

superior<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

to life but have been buried<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

further into my despair.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tsunamis have become my colleagues<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They are so short but\u00a0colossal;<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

coming and going,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

passing through earth faster<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

than my archaic fingers can snap.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Like waves,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I float back into the ocean<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and remerge with my origin,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

my source<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

of agony.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I was in and out,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

pulled back and pushed forward.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, it is silent.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yasmin Odeh   A wave is all else in all ways.\u00a0 In and out, back and forth,\u00a0 and noisy,\u00a0 much like a brain\u00a0 I\u00a0possess;\u00a0 it is fatally bruising.\u00a0 Rushes of torment\u00a0 continuing to flood my conscious\u00a0 cells\u00a0 and then my body,\u00a0 so severe\u2014enough to reach the surface\u00a0 of me.\u00a0 I browse around in confusion,\u00a0 seeking… <\/p>\n

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