Walter Mitty Revisited

in the mood

Salt stings in my eyes from the spraying ocean foam

I carefully stand up on the rough black rock

The sun has disappeared behind the breathing sea

The dead sky comes to life with purple clouds

Streaking through the gray like ugly scars

On a lurching zombie’s face, like the ones

Who will inherit this peaceful place

After the rest of us have slaughtered ourselves

With the victors left to face the Plagues

 

The wind picks up, the sands howl like wolves

That blind their prey and comes upon them in sheets

And envelope them, and leave behind no bones

The sailboats off the coast soldier on

Their captains desperate, seeking a safe port

And the comforts of their homes

They don’t understand the ocean, they don’t listen to it breathe

They think that it is cold indifference that leaves their sailboats overturned

Only those who come alone to this dark place,

Like me, see nature for what it is

And know that it is hot rage that sinks their boats

That all the wild world is full of hatred for itself

That man, like every animal, channels out this fire

And kills with little hesitation

And feels a lust for vengeance that is never satisfied

And every piece of nature

Feels exactly just like me

 

Around I turn, and see at last the crowd

So many people came here with me, have they been here all along?

And in their eyes I see reflected the fire within mine

But there is something more, a light burning all its own

And so I see that they are all like me

And I enter the crowd, the legion by the sea,

And they circle me around as if they would embrace me

But I have found some driftwood, and I begin to swing

And once every skull is broken, and every jaw unhinged

And every slowly rising chest has been seen and stomped ‘til still

I shall again relax, and sit down on the beach

There to ponder all the universe

And in isolation, dream

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Wunderlich]

"The dead sky comes to life with purple clouds
Streaking through the gray like ugly scars"

I really like those two lines, especially that simile. This flows nicely and is written very well. Awesome job.