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Seaside Buffet

She watches the waves,

Blue-black in the night,

Maybe she craves

All the bleeding inside.

She could choose to be happy,

She could choose not to grieve,

She could choose to forgive

And to set herself free.

She could dine on vengeance,

Or starve in disgrace,

She could put the fool bluntly

Back into his place.

She could rise to occasion,

Or fall to her knees

Pray for vaccination

Against his disease.

She could roll with the punches,

Or rock him to sleep,

She could come to her senses,

And just take the leap.

She could hear the wind calling

In swatches of gray

And abide by her soul's song

Or just waste away.

But she stands by the sea-side,

Unaware that she owns,

The ultimate power

To leave him alone.

And the water grows deeper

As she wades through her life,

And fills her lungs aptly

With love's quick demise.

For just like the sunset,

Beauty recedes,

And allows us to heal,

Or begs us to bleed.

Sometimes forever

Is a second or two,

Sometimes now

Is as old as it's new.

Sometimes waves pray,

And sometimes we drown

In yesterdays, some days

and the here and the now.