No matter how beautiful
Because all I want
Is a crack at a new day
I take a deep breath
Refuse to let this moment pass
Without the appreciation
Every moment deserves
I take a deep breath
Refuse to let this moment pass
Without the appreciation
Every moment deserves
Like the waves
Slowly undermining
A steep rocky shore
The will to live
Or the will to not die
Courage or fear
(I’m unsure which)
Drives them to the beach
Lungs filling with salt water
Muscles spent
Energy exhausted
I hear the roil of white noise
Waves crashing through the broken rock
Source obscured and muffled by darkened boughs
Clinging thickly to rising land
I realize
The beauty that is the world
The perfection that it is to live
Even without clarity
Certainty or conviction
I wondered who’d been here
Where had they gone
From where had they come
I followed the footfalls
Until their abrupt ending
Swallowed up by the sea
I sit in the dunes
Shrouded there too
By the tall dune grass
What could say autumn more
With such spare beauty
And somber solitude?
With her sails all torn
The great tall ship
Her tiller shorn
She broke her back
Upon the stone