And

just

like

that

Another life slipped through my fingers like water

But blood is thicker than water

And neptunes oceans couldn’t rid me of this red

A deep, crimson red seeps between my palms

Blood stained to my flesh

One more beating heart

is now without tune

Here they lay

They fought so hard against the darkness;

Battled for one more breath until the very end

Under my care, they ...

Those long streaks of crushed velvet -

Watch as they fold with destructive beauty

The arms of the ocean as they were,

Lift their own weight with such steed

And just as reach a mountain’s peak,

May they crumble to nothingness

and melt into the next one.

A vast blanket of ripples

That is forever torn at the seams

Ruptured in a million places,

All at once

Though quickly re-stitched

in one m...