Skeletal Remains Over The Black Sea

I am floating...

waves form under my toes

& lift my ruins & sorrows

over hundreds of days & hours

this grief has left me numb.

How long have these thoughts swirled

How long have they crashed against the rocks.

Crashed against my words until my sentences

became twisted mumbled of wrongly spoken verbs

My flow is interrupted...

Stormy sea, stopping me speak

Swallowing me whole

Grief has buried me deep beneath...

Jazmine Cartwright