My Sea of Memories


My mind is like a sea,
My memories are like the violent waves,
Smashing, crashing into the rocks.
And still I remember,
Just as violently as those deadly waves.
The white was churning madly,
Amongst the dark clouds.
Far away, the voice of terror-
crying for my help.
A huge wave,
Upset as one could ever be,
Crashing once again against the rocks!
But now against him,
A head, by now is all that's left,
Staring down off the cliff.
The head is now crashing,
Violently as I,
Against the rocks.
A sea once of pale blue,
Became a deep crimson.
Crimson as the blood he bled,
Bloody as my memories.
For, as I cry my heart away,
Over a memory much too clear,
I sit and ask myself why I was there,
And why I had to see.
Something dreadful, dreary, dank,
Forever dwells in me.
A dream is all I see.



Hrysoula L. Davis, March 5, 1997
Copyright © Hrysoula L. Davis 1997




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