Etch Anew

To live in an imprint,

Make soft indentations in the sand.

A fleeting memory, a dying ray

That bursts upon contact with the cold cement floor. 

To die within a moment,

One that left before it began.

A cruel mistake to cut fate's strings.

Too bad you can't erase the ink.

To live within a dream,

Reality unbarred.

Free to roam the flowered graves,

Uncover all you wish to know.

But to die within a dream,

Reality unfolds.

To will the knife, to force the blade

A yearning your conscious forbade.

To live within the sea, the waves

Move with the ebb, the flow.

Remove the heart etched on the beach,

A blank slate on which to write anew.