- matt chia's -
poetry, prose + commentary


Sunday, June 18, 2006

On A Breakwater

on a breakwater
you can hear the ocean sigh
sometimes louder, sometimes softer
but always melancholy;

you can see the sky - a pale grey blue
stretching its cirrus fingers to an unknown horizon;
the fresh salt tang plays with your hair,
your clothes,
it makes your eyes prickle (you knew it would);

and you can see the waves
cresting foam-white and blue

so pale

whispering gently to the shore
with its moss and algae growing up the rocks, slowly,
patiently
their only respite the drowning coolness of seawater

you can sit and watch
a wisp of cloud,
a scuttling crab,
a ship,
fading
into nothingness

I could sit and watch my life pass me by

I would only need cathartic waves
underneath a grey blue sky.

posted at 6:30 PM by Matt

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