Last night I crawled my way to the ocean
I felt the waves consume me whole
The ice cold, salty waves
Burned my open wounds
The wounds that you gave me
They burned as if they were on fire
I was on fire in the ocean
The reds, oranges, and yellows of my awakened soul illuminated the water around me
The amount of light was almost too much too handle,
but then I remembered.
This fire around me is too much for the ocean to handle
The wounds you gave me are too much for the ocean to handle!
The ocean is immense and powerful, but what you did to me was beyond the healing powers of the ocean.
The ocean causes tsunamis and drowns unsuspecting individuals,
But the ocean could not put the fire out.
It could not save me.
For the wounds you gave me were more than skin deep
They were imbedded in my mind, in my being, in my soul.
The ocean only knows how to destroy things on the surface.
It could not fix what you did.
That night I crawled out of the ocean
Still left with my pain
Still left with myself
That night I...