Seaheart New Sweetheart

2023 Annual Literary Contest

Finalist
Poetry

Lori Penner
Calgary, AB

We stood in the sand, you and I,

In shadows of dusk, we stared at the sky.

And the flaming sun fell into the sea,

Just as you said you were leaving me.

 

The sky now empty, my hand now free,

We’ve lost the fire to the sea.

Feeling the passion escaping from me,

Replaced by the stinging salt of the sea.

 

You heart had darkened, like the sky,

Alone on the shore, I have to cry.

The ocean’s devotion will stay true to me,

Because my heart fell into the sea.