Do not erase me For you are the sea Indelible footprints impossible Though heavy I have stepped So smoothly you erase I was there, now forgotten You sweep, glide; immersing, unearthing Taking - my proof of existence I tread quickly I look behind me - nothing All once completely alike, but totally different Yet now - vacancies which suffered the same fate How have they left me? These memories once so deep Vanished into a slate wiped clean I've been robbed; Have I not lived? I have been swallowed My being shattered The waves steal my past dutifully No longer am I unique I ponder from afar Did I deserve such a fate? Yes - I should not be ashamed For mine and a king's would be taken alike
Reason for writing:
Before my UCLA Freshman Orientation, I visited Santa Monica. A major concern in my life was whether or not Geraldine,my girlfriend of two years, and I were going to stay together. She was going to go to school across town at USC, and a continued relationship would be tough. Anyway, the beautiful waters inspired me to write using that tone and angle, conveying my biggest concern - that she not forget me. Nevertheless, we recently broke up. We were each other's first everything, so this poem will forever stand in my heart and hopefully hers, so that we will remember each other as we were.
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