To the sea, once more
After his last tears had dried
and finally grief had settled,
I decided we should visit the ocean
for one last time.
So I drove our car,
soon to be just mine,
toward the open sea.
Though our seconds each moment waned,
we travelled in punishing silence.
I imagined he spoke to me
of past times
when we might travel to the sea
as escape from our perfect normality.
I imagined we travelled in bliss and love and
sang awfully together. But we didn’t.
We travelled cocooned in grief,
tinged by a silence known by few.
What was the living to say to the dying?
And in this silence we passed
from the comfort of land to the world’s edge,
where I watched the distant birds
lining the waves; the erratic, soft current-
in perfect harmony with everything,
yet nothing.
And the unknown artist’s masterpiece,
named- pebbles and shells.
Innocent beauty yet to be caressed
by man’s dry, perverted hands.
But he did not see. Instead he stared
transfixed on the moving blue
inverted sky. The ocean
stretched before him, as to me,
but from his eyes its beauty was hidden.
Where I saw a canvas of endless
untouched possibility,
he saw the defining point of life.
To him, the ocean was final;
the resounding finite point-
reminder of end.
Though I may one day return,
to soak in the sea’s peace once more,
he will not.
While the breeze entices me and hopes
to ensure my swift return, to my love
it whispers one final goodbye.
Posted Aug 1, 2021, 10:31 PM UTC
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