The Sea of Unforgiving

To the sea of unforgiving

where the sand is made of forced eye contact

hesitant nervous stomachs side by side

and a doubt that the once had will ever come back

it is a sea without waves

just hardened lava

that gives the impression of past movement

now fossilized in sheer pain

it’s not a place you can choose to come and go

but a place you find yourself without ever making the choice

a place you cannot choose to leave because

the walls are inscribed with everything that once went wrong

the walls don’t fully enclose you

but the writing guarantees you won’t leave

because just a hint of past wrong doings

will bring you back to the very moment you arrived.