Alone

Gritty sand graces my back               

The stars mock my surrender

Though they understand my plight

The waves of the tide crash and break

They sound hungry

Like the stars, I lay stuck

My celestial counterparts glimmer

I can hear their laughter

They know loneliness

Though it is learned over millennia

My severance is still fresh

Once part of a whole

Now food for the waves

Their cool touch enrobes me

I can hear my heart beating

Yet it is still broken

She was ripped from me

Most of my heart went with her

The hungry tide claims my face

I shut it out till I burst

It burns my lungs

The stars wink though my casket

I hear them laugh

The world fades

She is calling me