Cut wide open and agape, a
cold unbroken landscape
is vacant with no escape.
Raw.
I turn away from this unwanted fate
But the path follows me, having no grace.
The unwelcome
continues to stare me in the face.
All at once, the drowning waves crash in,
tossing, spinning, churning,
And just as breath is expiring,
They recede back into the whole.
The anguish consumes all that it touches
Cleansing, purging, tormenting my soul,
toward the everlasting quiet.