Every day as the sun rose
the sand sparkled like broken glass and salt
The ocean saw how the sand sparkled
and collapsed on top of it
A steady hush and hiss with every attempt
No one ever wondered why the ocean sounded like that
Like a fatigued Darth Vader
The ocean was sick
The ocean felt lonely
It is hard to have a body that big
to ever feel full
One day people came to swim
They did not swim like the animals did
The animals swam naturally
No one ever notices the way their own blood
pumps inside their veins
so much that they are happy being alive
The people splashed awkward
Stood sometimes letting their toes
graze the sea floor
This made the sea happy
But the people who were not of the sea
grew tired
and started for the sand
The sea became upset that they were leaving
and created a wave so big
it pulled the people back inside of it
A crash that sounded like lung cancer
A heave skipping the heart a beat
One that begs for any kind of breath
The ocean felt the people splashing hard
Fighting for land
It felt good
Eventually
They slowed
Gave up
And drowned
The ocean was lonely again
It calmly wheezed
at the shiny sand