Sunburns

I wake up scared, with red all over

The shape of a hand print on me

The pain hits me like a wave

The sun shining down hard

I get up slowly

Sand on my feet

A sunburn

The worst

Pain

Reviews

[drcornelius]

I think this is my favorite of your poems. Not a single wasted word. I wonder whether the pain hit like a wave or stabbed like a knife.

[Laurenb]

I used the simile " The pain hits me like a wave" because it goes with the theme of all my other poems which is beach/ summer themed and it falls in place with the syllables needed.