The Beach at Night





Everywhere I look there stretches the deep dark sea.

The sea stares with the gloomy eyes of a sage man at me.

The gleaming moon shows its powerful might,

By making everything as far as the eye can see brightly shine.

To the sides of me lie the great dirt-brown rocks,

That make the tall monotonous English cliffs stand out.

I lie down listening to the waves,

Crashing down on the sand with such force.

Yet it is so peaceful,/P>

It makes me think of all the demeaning sadness that lies within me,

The same rythmatic beat rushing over the golden sand.

Every ten seconds, tirelessly playing its melody,

The green-black wave whooshes,

The sound makes my nerves feel cold,

And makes me moan silently of my better life in the past,

I look up into the sky,

Where I see the heavens in full display,

The big reddish-brown planet,

Reminds me of how isolated one can be,

The stars remind me of the thousands of people I've seen,

Each showing its brightness,

Except for me.



-March 31,1994 .

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