An Ocean Away

I stare with anguish at the open sea,

A distant ghost, fading – is all i see.

Was It desperation?  My masquerade

Engaging, pretending, painting a shade

Of vivid serenity – that they said

Was fooling no one,  not even one. And

While the sun burns my skin in two colors,

I’m cold, and numb, and drowning in sorrow.

While Marooned in an isle of your haunting,

I keep erasing, I keep creating

An image that’s convoluting, distorting

Shuffling from bleak memories and longing…

No anchor can sink you permanently,

You’ll be back ashore eventually.

Beneath a night sky, I gave up and lay

And dream of a ghost an ocean away –

- I.M.R.

April, 2016