Sand, wind-
Wasteland.
Not like the beach I remember.
The water is still there
and I am too
But it isn’t,
and I’m not.
Laying here, the sun shines on me
in my dark room.
It was there.
Like me, it remembers.
Please,
I ask
let me sleep.
I squirm around and kick up little clouds in the sky
Like the ones I remember.
Please,
I beg.
The ice in my cup crackles
and the tides inch closer to my feet.
I get up and start running for the boardwalk
when I trip,
fall
back into her arms.
Ghostly hands stroke my arms as I crumble.
Frozen,
I bathe in the light.
I succumb to the sun.