Endless Ocean

My mind.
A barren beach.
No obstruction, no interruptions.
My thoughts are like waves.
Waves that wash new ideas on shore.
Calm waves bring cool thoughts.
Thoughts of happiness and thoughts of love,
thoughts of the good times when I was young.
But pain crosses my mind.
The lightening strikes, the thunder roars, the waves grow.
Now rough waves bring thoughts of suffering.
Times when I sat in black,
tears on my cheeks, death on my mind.
I held a razor in my hand.
Tidal waves of anguish rip the shores apart like the blade that rips my skin.
My eyes meet yours.
I am lost in all that is you.
The endless ocean of your compassion.
The sun comes out and and the water calms to an almost glass like smoothness.
The sight of you chisels my mind.
The footprints in the sand.
Waves rush the beach with the rising tides.
Running frantically, I try to save the marks you left.
The only thing I have of you.
The ocean is far too great and I, far too little.
Each wave takes a part of you away until I have nothing
Shells now lay where you once did.
Although your footprints no longer lie in the sand,
my love for you is set in stone and locked in my heart.