OCEAN TEARS

A sea is a body of water

A body is a sea of bones

A sea is full of salt and seaweed

A body is full of flesh and blood

The waves start to form, licking up the sand

The people start to run, picking up the soil in gardens

The flowers that were starting to blossom,

get picked up

Like a ten year-old getting picked up by her mother

after school

The flowers start to shrivel-up, lacking water

Soon, they’d die

The people start to cry, lacking love

Soon, they’d die

Breathe in and out, the whispers scream, taming

Your heart pounding against your chest

Wanting to run away

Smashing ribs

Breaking them

Turning to

Dust

That get picked up by the ocean

Into the roaring waves they go,

Like a pizza into an oven

Your eyes start to fill with water,

Water that tastes like salt,

Water from the ocean