Promised embrace (a study in shock and despair)
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Promised embrace
Walking the beach on a cloudy windy night,
Low dark clouds swirling above,
Moving fast in wave like motion
Almost in sync with the sea below.
Shoes soaked from the pungent salty tide,
Tuxedo in disarray
Torn and bloody……
Walking in shock not knowing where he is at,
Only the deep sorrow of what just transpired his reality.
A second is all it took,
Only wreckage and blood the aftermath,
Beloved dead the crash deadly
Only the deep darkness of shock present.
Dark sea calling
Offering its cold embrace
To sink below the waves and be no more,
Joining his beloved dead
Alive just an hour before.
Alone in the dark he fell to his knees
His scream silent since there was no one to hear,
Whipped by the wind his frenzy increasing
The bed the ocean offered calling him to come.
Bowing his head upon the cold hard sand
Water covering his head with foam
Not wanting to move,
To just lay still
Allowing the tide to do its work.
Rains came lashing his body
With punishing coldness
His flesh was lashed,
His heart now dead black as coal
Despair like bile rising
Accepting its message of letting go.
He turns toward the waves longing for peace
Walks slowly into the icy water
Hot salty tears streaming down his face
His soul filled with only a void like silence.
The pain in his heart so great,
He did not fight the salty taste
Flowing into his lungs as he sunk ever deeper
The cold dark waters giving him his promised embrace.