Echoes of a lost love resound as the deafening waves crash,
Manifesting the anger that has intensified
since you left me here alone,
Tears sting my face,
mixed with the wind-whipped water from the inflamed sea,
Forcing me to realize that I can still breathe
without a logical reason,
I bellow into the wind,
demanding to know why you went away,
It howls back at me,
deafening and chilled, no answer given,
My bleeding heart pumps rapidly,
emitting all of the pain harbored inside,
It is so congested with your presence,
how could pain share the space,
My mind recalls memories of days and nights of euphoria,
Bliss, so sweet, that my body trembles with each remembrance,
My soul is crushed as it is hammered with the loss of you,
Eyes that can't see beyond watching you walk away,
Now, as the sea beckons to ease my intolerable pain forever,
A sandpiper alights and halts my feet from moving forward,
Battered by the same entity that is inviting  my soul to rest,
In my hand, the broken wing, now limp,
shows it's kinship to my shattered heart,
And, as I turn toward the shore to place the helpless beauty
in a santuary from the frenzied sea,
The boiling waves race to take the life into never-ending darkness,
Suddenly, unaware of the violence around me,
I kneel and take the ceature to my chest,
I yell to the tempestuous sea, "No, no!
My heart is still alive and we two can become whole again",
I turn from the thief in the night and as I step slowly,
I look back and see my lover's image,
ingrained in every footprint in the sand,
Forever behind me.
 

Judith Hartley  Copyright © 1999

 
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