I share my name with a capital city; You’ll think my red color is fiery and pretty; I was born in the remnants of a Life u sending; I’m not really real, but what’s wrong with pretending?

I swell beneath the moon’s cold gaze, Retreat, return in measured ways. I change the shore, the mind, the year, A rising force both far and near. You feel me shift in blood and wave, The cyclic pull you cannot save.

Many try to diminish my doings. The cause of a new world order. I bring with me death, famine, and disease. To the benefit of a few and the detriment of the majority. I destroyed worlds. What am I?

I am a keep by the sea, I have no King, I can be grand or small I am built by many, but temporary What am I?

I have a blue lagoon at my heart, a ring of coral that keeps it apart. Born from the fire that sank below the waves, I am the life that the ocean saves. I have no mountains, no high peaks to show, only sand, sun and the sea's gentle flow.