The Words I'll Never say Aloud

taste of the ocean

I want to scream and shout

all the things you did to me

all the pain I feel

the things I feel no more

everything you gave me

everything you took.

But I can't.

I haven't the strength.

I look out into the waves and back at him.

I was finally above the waves.

Finally out of it all.

But I couldn't breathe.

I could still taste the ocean in my tears.

So here I sit, wrapped up and far from it all

But it isn't gone.

The ocean became a part of me.

Constant in the endless flow of tears.

Yet I still looked back...

out over the rolling waves,

tying to desperately to look for the parts that it tore away from me.

It was long gone.

swallowed up and lost far beneath

along with all the other beautiful secrets.

stolen from the innocent and torn,

only replacing it with terrors far worse than we'd anticipated.

but what now?