7 Comments
User's avatar
Emily S Hurricane's avatar

Oh this hit hard

alex b.'s avatar

Ohhh this is goood!🔥

Eugenia P. Frankenberg 🥀's avatar

powerful, rhythmic!

Nick Winney's avatar

dragged in by your wave.

beached.

what shore do I taste the sand of?

Laid Papinova's avatar

"West of pain" is such a beautiful way of describing death. That's how I interpret it. If life is like the sun, it gets more painful and bloody the more west it goes until it finally disappears beneath the waves. Perhaps that's the reason behind the sea imagery at the end. This is the first poem I've read by you and I really enjoyed it.

Caleb Caudell's avatar

excellent

Logan Heron's avatar

I loved this one for its own merits, but it also made me jealous because it explores a lot of the emotion and conflict I tried to put in my invisible man piece in much more succinct way. You did more in this short piece than I did with almost 2000 words.