Who are you?

Why are we here?

We are almost lost on our shifting heavenly body:

Earth - a green and cerulean quintessence of sand

so gracefully unforgiving.

Do you remember the first time you saw the sea?

I bet you were all salt-kissed hair and sun-kissed skin -

Standing on the edge of your world.

I remember how it washed around my feet

when I was little - the knowledge of endings.

Such was strange freedom -

Now only pain to comprehend.

Do love and loss weather you too?

A seaside swirling tide, first high,

then low - slowly fading footprints in the sand.

One day we’ll all be lost to the swell

but only fools take arms against the sea

For beneath a Leviathan undercurrent stirs—

Beckoning dune birds and their hatchling young to riptides and the vastest fathoms,

a forever kind of hunger, beyond reach, beyond reckoning - ugly in its infinity.

We ephemeral things are so fleetingly beautiful,

that’s why time hurts us most,

erodes our edges.

Sometimes life strikes as lighting, wildness takes us slow and fast,

Like the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks,

making fulgurites on wind-worn foreshores.

When did you stop dreaming of flying?

Like a wild Pacific gull - seething over vast horizons,

unhindered by the lull.

Now I wake up falling in the dark,

The light behind my tired eyes a tidemark - softly rising in the night,

under the moon’s silent dominion, where I lie in wonder.

Who are you?

Why are we here?

                                i hope we never know