SoMa Literary Review - All true love

All true love

By Robert S. O'Brien

The deep swells on the outer banks of a dead love
roll forever into a future damned
by vows remembered
that are as dangerous to sail over
as submerged masts or shallow water above rock shoals
at the edge of an endless sea.
Come back! I cry into torn winds
and I hear my voice among the seagulls
mindlessly echo, Come Back!
Come back!
ends in death

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Robert S. O'Brien lives in Redwood City. "All true love" is excerpted from a longer work-in-progress he is currently working on.