Unfathomable Devastation

Unfathomable Devastation is a poem about a ship near the Red Sea in Yemen which has been left to rust. It carries at least 48 million gallons of gasoline and is rusting out as we speak. There has been too many delays to salvage this problem and a disaster is lurking.

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Catastrophe waits in open sight,

a rusty oil tanker at sea

waiting for that inevitable moment

when oil gushes into the ocean,

an explosion the likes we’ve never seen.

It’s called “The Safer"

but it’s no longer safe,

estimated to spill four times as much oil

as the “Exxon Valadez” leak

carrying 48 million gallons

stored within her old, worn beauty.

A cooling system rusted beyond repair

with fire extinguishers no longer working,

a skeleton crew

with a tiny generator to supply the only power.

Cleanup up in the billions

with air pollution taking lives,

the biggest man-made disaster to ever happen

lurks with an unfathomable tragedy

waiting to occur.

By Brenda Arledge

From: United States

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