I took my grief to the sea
To bury it on the beach
It was a discreet ball of grief
Not much smaller than a baseball
Tied in knots with a ribbon of black
Inside wrapped in red tissue paper
The color of blood
The color of love
The color of pain
Tied round and round in twine
Around the love from kin
I’ve been denied
Which followed me up and down
From here to there
Everywhere my heart went
So it went too
And now out of the black and into the blue
To the beach and the waters that will come
With tears of forgiveness to wash it away
