Best Poems Written by Riley Waters

The Wave

The Wave

The vastness of the ocean
An inconceivable body of water
The crushing weight cascading
As if all of creation came tumbling
In the face of such awful power
The force of a hundred thrown bags of sand
Crashes into where I stand
I had tried to run
But the water pulled me in it’s grasp only to obliterate 
In the last moment 
I turn to face the torrent
But I was too late
And the crushing boulders
Appearing illusively soft
Slam into me
And what remains is carried away
Far into the moving depths of the sea
I fall gently through the various zones
The water growing dark and cold
It takes me an eternity to reach the bottom
From here the surface seems stardom
And as I rest in perpetual night
I see a curious light
An Angel approaches me
And my heart flutters in ecstasy 
But something was wrong as it approached 
As I then understood my distorted hope
The Angel understood too and sought to consume
But was cut short by its own deity
As another monster of the sea struck forth from the gloom
Leaving my rotting body
Trapped in the vast darkness of the deep sea.

Copyright © Riley Waters | Year Posted 2021