I Am Only an Island

A child atop the mountain, overlooking the empty sea Finally cognizant of the sun overlooking; bathing in its heat for the first time An abstracted, something, catches the eye from afar a few fish in the ocean A boy atop the mountain again, the calm sea below A comforting recluse from the beating sun; warmth has become sweat The glacier that seems to shrink plagues his mind daily- new fish find their home in the water The man atop his mountain, his ocean slowly enveloping it Constantly sitting upon the peak as the tide rises; he is heat exhausted under the sun at its apex The glacier, a fragment of its once great beauty, impossible to reach schools of fish- distinct, but collective- fill the sea An elder, violent waves consuming There every day at peace; burning Something in the distance? All thoughts melting into an ocean polluted with fish Swimming in the ocean The peak has drowned The sun has set One with the water Now a fish