Ocean Sands

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The smell of seaweed permeates the air

enveloping the Greco-Roman wrecks of eons passed,

the people gone, traditions forgotten, cultures melted,

histories erased.

It’s easy to disappear in the sands of time,

buried beneath sandcastles built for the sole purpose

of being washed away.

My salty tears created the ocean,

the raging salty ocean waters disintegrate the

castles where I am Queen.

Queen for a moment, reigning as ruler of castles

adorned with a child’s shells,

decorated like the dead in a museum,

ravaged by time, by life, by being,

destroyed by the waves of salty tears I shed upon the

ocean that is my life.