On the beach

Empty pill box bobbing up and down

My memories of you

One capsule left

Repeats zero

Swallow it down.

Placid ocean

Cracking sun

Jagged piers of resentment

Split a lazy yolk across the years of sky.

Gentle golden surf

Vainly sighing reassuring words

As to an inconsolable, crying child.

Wade out into the druggy orange haze:

Trust,

Hope,

Faith and

Into the rip tide

Out to sea

Into the deep

Where:

Waters violently roil,

Lethal danger silently lurks beneath,

Hungry to eat…

Wherever I sleep.