Inside Seawalls
coming up the
steep road
tsunami waves
tremble down
going closer
towards it,
I can’t turn
back around
if that was the last
moment I’ve seen,
I remember the sky
was split in halves
and that’d be what my final
memory is going down as
one side was indigo
with a bright full moon
the other is the sun shining
with faded orange maroon
and the waves were
falling over each other,
a cool breeze during the
night of a hot summer
inside the ocean
of living creatures,
with some
we’d never know,
like prehistoric animals
that lived long ago
I made it out by putting
up walls around my soul
because if I didn’t,
the water would’ve
swallowed
me whole
- Leah Rae