Choose

What fear resonates

in an ocean like this?

My bliss

My breath

My choked up

tears of pain

and yet we live

We walk this shore

I see the joy

I hear the laughter

The waters swell

with tomorrow's new day

The graves swell too

and family mourns

and friends

pass on

How I long

to join them

at times

Yet Beauty dances

Covered in sand

Scripted by

hearts set free

How can this

be wrong?

Ashes to ashes

Sand to sea

What has this dying

awakened in me?

Drift out soul surfer

Release

and here am I...

living in this guilt

Determined

I have to

I cannot just

enjoy things now

Yet I survive

as I must

This air

is here

It is present

and so I

choose to breathe

I let the tides

call to me

I let them

evoke a day

I used to know

But tomorrow

calls as well

Stark and empty

How shall it

be filled?