June 2021 Flash Lit 4 - The Wreck

The Wreck

 

Afterwards,

when the light returns

and the water smooths,

when the shouting stops,

we see

 

the rocks were always there.

Some inevitability, some

quantum magnet of chaos,

drew us to this sharp shock.

 

The tide may ebb and

waves recede, but

time will not flow back, back

to when we were whole.