by Grace Lee
Like an ocean tide erasing footprints
in the sand, darkness engulfed her entirely.
Waves crashed wildly against the ship’s
exterior, booming like grand drumbeats.
The sunlight was a dying ember,
peeking only faintly through window cracks.
Her goodbye seemed to have been mere
moments ago, yet the distance between herself
and the land now stretched faster and further
than the sea’s horizon. The memory of the
hasty farewell painted across her mind like
a blurry photograph as regret clung like
rainwater onto her unsettled thoughts.
Now, her homeland drifted, shriveled, and
faded, slowly disappearing from her blurry view.
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