The Angel and the Sea
you were my sun that i rose to meet each morning
and i treasured every moment i felt your warmth on my skin
and even when we at departed at sunset
i still felt your glow in the moon and the stars
you were a burst of light that vanished too quickly
and sometimes
words are never enough
and every minute that went by
with that unbearable silence
you felt your chest cave in deeper
you stuffed things inside that didn't seem to fill in the hole in your chest
as if smoke and mirrorse and mirror could distract how vacant you felt
and with every breath you inhaled
you emptied yourself just a little more
and there was nothing left of you to take
how you wanted to keep the world
and bottle it up inside
but the ocean was too much so it
left hairline fractures in your bones
you left it there and
let it drag you down until you collapsed
into tiny slivers of pieces
like shards of a shattered mirror
and you would reflect the pain you were given
but you never returned
when did you forget how to smile?
you poor old soul,
you who wondered, searching long and hard
for a place to call home
trying to find among strangers a common ground
but only to discover that you were
surrounded by moutains
and the climb was too steep
you fell every time you tried
one day i will tell your story to the youth
how your tears filled the sea with salt
and although the storms swallowed the sound of your screams
they didn't wash away the stories you left in the sand
i will tell them how no matter the multitude of blizzards you suffered
your heart never turned cold
though frost bite ripped at your throat
you still carried the fire in your eyes
that kept you warm on the most threatening nights
you never froze over
you held a candle to the darkness of the caves
and uncovered treasures no one knew existed
how your blood ran thicker than water
and you established a family in these stone walls
you etcheed your heart and soul into the cracks and
integrated your deepestthoughts
that live on to this day
you found hope
in a place
where our dreams had died
you gave beauty
to a world
that turned ugly with hate
and a soul like you
was too precious for a place like this
and so heaven reclaimed
its angel
the world will never love you
like i did