Like Waves on a Fading Shore

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Grief washes in, fades my shore

Just a little more

Memories speak at strangest times

“You are no more.”

It drags me in, firm its clasp

I struggle, break free from its grasp

As its waters recede,

I close my eyes, and gasp

It will return. I know.

I am tempted to run as I watch it go

But I am the shore

Where does the shore go?

So I pray, in the words of the wind

To hold back these thoughts

That all be still

The sea, the shore, my memory.

Osundolire Ifelanwa for Dad, whom I still sorely miss.