Encroachment.
Before the lunge of rampaging
breakers terror sits sweating
on dwellers crouching in houses
close to high cliffs.
Against the scream of outraging
forces stand stalwart cattle
as storm batters pastures where
lambing ewes cringe.
Harsh the challenge to coastal line
farming as by fiercely whipping
efforts to halt ocean-encroachment
wind always wins.
No labour can cage land-sliding
reshapes by nature\'s elements
when incessantly riled with greedy
over-mined rape.