Like A Wave

Like a wave, when they came, they came like a wave

Like the ocean floor rolling sunken treasures

over their skin and in and out of their

salted fingernails

They came like winter

Too soon to get used to cold current

ripping through icicle lungs

They came like a wave

Two by two and in every variety

There were miracles then

Etched in the sand and coral-

the stories of floating fisherman boots

and lost caverns.

They came like the blazing sun on beaches

Fading everything in the path of its glow

They came like a wave

I hope you glow like that

They came like a wave

Don't forget their candle flickered underwater

and warned us of trespassers

Of bottom-feeders looking for some oxygen.

I pray for the wave to roll over your tentacles

and give you peace

The sky cannot haunt you here.

They came like a wave

With tides like lullabies

to rock them back to slumber.

When they came

They floated to shore with the afternoon

Slept naked on the beach with sand and starfish

When they came, they came like a wave.