by Katie
Eyes within the sand witness the uncertainty of the moon,
an undertow in disguise,
The weight of the sea
shifting,
upon me.
Stress waves its claws
signaling that--
everything
really isn’t as okay
as the stars have lead me to believe.
The sun washes ashore,
And collides with beached whales,
Resembling a creature
I once called mother.
And the visions of black skies she has left me with,
I try to push
into an inaccessible corner
of the unconscious, but often feel as if all driftwood
has a predetermined path to the surface
And the smirk of the horizon, it's
all too familiar--like that of my father
His hailing laugh heard from above, within the clouds
In which they too depart, out of fear, drop
and pierce invisible wounds straight into the soul
I can feel the gusts of his breath
blowing the debris of deceit,
but never regret,
And it will not allow me
to ever
feel comfortable
within this skin
that I'd love to watch the wind carry away
because
I have been left with only
The earth and the sky,
but if the moon in the sky controls the tides of the sea
and the sea consumes the earth,
I will forever carry the weight of the world