Starfish Masters of Fate

On sunrise beaches

I watched the oceans collapsing.

Day after day presence spoke

Through an undying soul

Continually dying to live

In pursuit of higher ideals

Of sea salt air.

He sought inner truth

Giving a heartfelt response

In the grains of sand pounding

The shore where eddys collected Memories deposited.

Two kindred souls reaching out

To make sense

Of a hurting world,

If only listening were enough

In the ebb and flow of high tides

And low.

Seaweed breathes transparency

In brown bunches swaying

An undeveloped sense of self

His flawless body stiffened in remembrance

Of nonexistent

Positive currents to fill the empty void

On striking colors of brittle stars,

Regenerating their arms

In tidal pools a relentless affair

Of respect and care.

Only what the moon proposes,

Always unveils

The good

Of telling truth when the waters recede

Starfish armies advance

In their daily

mourning prayers.