// Concerts & Tsunamis //

My mind sinks into sleep hesitantly.

My mind wandered into the beach. There were large crowds, but I was slipping in and out of consciousness and I saw my body sleeping in the fetal position. Was I experiencing an earthquake? I stood on the beach with legs bracing me, and then, far off in the ocean, I saw a wave. It was violent and powerful, and it screamed towards us. I thought of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan; California’s turn had finally come. It was our turn to face the same terrifying consequences.

I screamed at my brother and little sister to run with me. I got dizzy to the motion of running. I was in the top of a skyscraper. I called my brother to urge him to come to where I was. He yelled at me to stop being irrational. He had forgotten the wave that we had seen. I could not reach my little sister. Helplessness over took me like drowning.