#7

The Nature of a Wave

Some people
love you
and will stand for
nothing else.
Others have a different purpose.

They must be the break
that knocks you down,
holds you beneath
the cooling tide

until you are washed,
with everything else,
upon the smooth, silver, sand
broken.

There you lie
for a long time,
listening.

Perhaps
this is just
the nature of the wave.

and you have only just
been caught
in the wake
of one man's pain.


-Llora H. Kressmann