Abiding Search of Shade

 You better be sure before you leave me for another one.

Standing on the beach, my feet burrowed under the sand and the water keeps rising. Used to feel like a tide, the way it came and went. Now it seems like it's just rising non-stop. Holding my ground and fighting change keeps getting harder and harder. Some days I simply can't imagine what it feels like to be out of the scorching sun. Not quite sure which is worse. The ever present darkening gloom of this scorching heat or the slowly creeping sea? I've been here before, you know. Faced the same dilemma a few years ago and I didn't wait for one of them to end me. I just, walked out. Somehow, somewhere along the road, despite my many complaints and resentment, this beach did become a part of me that is now hard to leave. Which explains why I haven't already walked out. 449 weeks since the last intense touch of life in my heart. Almost a decade of unrelenting loss of sense and self. Maybe it's these beaches I keep getting stuck at. Maybe I just need to be with the compassionate sidewalks of the city, go on night rides and lose these chains I've put on myself. Only thing I'm certain is, if I don't make this change, either the fear of the water or the abiding search of shade will be the end of me and I don't think I'm ready to end.

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