breaking like a wave

i’m breaking like a wave
on the cliffs of my thoughts
crashing against memory and desire
a pebble dislodges
from a sand encrusted ledge
i look up the coast
and these cliffs extend beyond my sight
my breath stirs the sand
and uncovers a shell
lost to time
and now reborn
how many lay buried
some are best left where they are
others would do well to see the sun again
i hear the wind
i feel it on my back
it blows past me to the sails
of my hands
and it carries me
into a blue endless sky
only to fall to the ocean
and be lifted again
by a gust
i don’t know from where it comes
rising, rising
falling, falling
again and again and again and again
this breath