Escape Waves(Sleep)
The rising of the waters
Distracts not from the escape
From a lonely past she runs
Onto sand, under dark skies
The long stretches of the beach
Given footprints in her wake
Became a page of word-pains
Paragraphs of her lost hope
Written on grains were her lies
Each shed through her slowing feet
Years of life left behind her
A parade of ghosts fading
Cast out from the many dead
She’d lived through cold loneliness
Trapped in white walls and crowded
Unknown or hunted, both hurt
At last she found dry drift wood
To which she fed great, bright sparks
Kindling flames to warm and light
To keep her from her sorrow
She sat beside the fire
Soaking up it’s heat inside
Allowing it to hold her
Because no one wanted to
The grey clouds above closed in
Blackening a sunset sky
Taking of the soft red light
Not touching that beside her
Waters moved in toward shore
Slowly moving walls around
A lowering mass above
Forming a crushing cocoon
The smoke rising fed the sky
A bled offering calling
Pulling the storm down to speak
To preach its dark destruction
Back to the flames her eyes turned
Always their dance was for her
A comfort in all her dreams
A friend to the friendless soul
Hypnosis and sleep filled her
Pulling her down to the sand
Heat and exhaustion covered
Blessing her with her lost sleep
Escape Waves(Fight)
Heat dies under a thin wave
Dream-prayers lost as the smoke
An offering far too sparse
To halt the ocean’s slow march
Mist from the clouds collect here
On her waking knot of clothes
As cold water moves beneath
Soaking her before she moves
Her eyes burst open to black
No light found them as she rose
Shaking with cold and sleep-numb
Barely standing on weak legs
A clouded mind stumbling on
Pushing her only away
Away from her lost control
Fleeing the cold and deep death
She reached the stones in moments
Unexpected and unsure
They met her back with solid pain
And the red flare faded black
Her mind held tight in the now
She quickly regained footing
And pushed against the strong rain
Against the flood from above
Aches resonated behind
Her back bruised, her lungs empty
Rain running down her pained face
Not recognized anywhere
Fears were screaming all around
Blindness and no directions
Cold and waves, rain and hurt
Running was all she could do
A boulder swept under her
Sending her hard into stone
Again she was hit with red
Her mind splintering inside
Fear drove her to tallest cliffs
Pinning her to them, hopeless
The sounds of tide approaching
Crippled her flight with great ease
With the death near she willed smoke
To carry her in its drift
To allow her an escape
Lift her soul to the hidden