The Ocean Listens
What you confess on the shore, the ocean swallows whole.
How many times have you stood at the beach scrutinising your life? The words tumble clumsily out through your lips that are trembling as a result of the weight of the world crushing your shoulders. Your fatigued eyes are solely trained on the waves lapping the shore, kissing the sand delicately before retreating back into the warmth of its home. You envied this sense of belonging the water possessed with the sand. They were like two sides of the same coin. One could not live without the other, and you yearned for that feeling.
You allowed yourself to speak to the waves. You opened your heart to it, and as the waves crashed gently against the shore, it absorbed your words, and retreated with them back into the ocean. You gulped harshly as your eyes glistened with tears.
You could feel it.
You were the other side of the coin, and the beach was the opposite side. It fueled itself with your confessions you wished to unburden yourself with, and you fueled yourself by releasing your stress to it.
Your energies fed off one another, and for a moment of serenity, you felt like it was only you residing in this planet. As morbid as this may sound, you found an odd peacefulness to the thought, and you felt your body gradually relax as you sank to sit above the golden grains of sand.
Smiling soothingly as the cool water touched your feet, you couldn’t help but relish in how the once too heavy weight on your shoulders, suddenly disappeared. It was discarded somewhere within the depths of the ocean now, for the waves snatched it away to bring you happiness, even if it was temporary.
You sighed quietly, enjoying the tranquil silence around you. You could hear nothing but the waves and the occasional seagulls in the distance, and you wished this moment could last an eternity.
If you had no one to speak to, no shoulder to lean on, no listening ear, then fear not, because the ocean will listen.
