Blue waves fill the horizon

Choppy and harsh

Sharks lurking everywhere.

They swim amongst us

As we stay afloat… location unknown.

We set sail in the morning-

Which morning? It evades me.

The sun sets and returns

Just to taunt us as it makes it way home.

The scorching heat beams its heavy rays

While the waves rip open fresh wounds.

Salt burns our eyes.

The sail, once upright, now faces the ocean floor

As we cling to its underlay

Barely afloat.

Darkness creeps in

And the only light left comes from above;

Its so far away-

So beyond our reach.

Memories come and go

Like the waves to the shore

Once so nostalgic

Now a painful reminder of what once was.

The sky full of stars seemed dead and cold;

A place once so magical now hurt to behold.