Beauty In the Storm

“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.” Christopher Paolini, Eragon BEAUTY IN THE STORM her hair tangled and brackish, a brunette toga draped over one shoulder — the other open to the elements of sea, sky and sand. she faces the storm — it appears in whites and grays — textured ebb and flow. it matches the bony ridges of her shaded back. she remains strong — though she’s beaten like the shoreline, all alone like a boat in the middle of the deep. her neck’s a strong ivory lighthouse its eye wants to shine on a sole survivor — her hopes squelched by heavy moonlight. 7/23/2019