A Grain of Sand
Location
The sand whispers
As it falls from sun sticky skin
Back through shadow
Into anomanimity
"Shhhhhhh" it says
Each grain as solid
as the wall I built to block my tears
Each handful as fluid
as that wall crumbles
Inevitably.
What a shameless sensation
Sitting there on the beach.
Warmth parading through sunbeams
Dancing with my cells
My gaze directed at the abyss of sandy whitness
That once formed a solid rock
My thoughts directed at the abyss of nothingness
That envelops me
Allowing
A moment of peace.
I risk the thought of thinking and
Momentarily suspect
I had not been breathing
But
Eventually
Find I am
Indeed
Alive
And but a grain of sand,
Allowing
Everything
A moment of contemplation.