On the Beach

waves lull me to sleep my eyes drifting and fluttering but wait didn’t I want to see the twilight? They open in uninterested slits the melody of the ocean lullabying me into total relaxation a joyful reunion with my loved ones who have gone ahead I wake to the enthusiastic laugh of a toddler. One of those shrill excited scream shriek laughs. An unexpected smile parades across my lips. I am forgetting to grieve now. It is impossible to be sad here. I smoosh my fingers into the sand, feeling loved.