Cold Ocean, Warm Sea

As the Ocean Rolls

Warm blue sea

Surface, smooth 

Reflecting sunlight

With a quiet wind.

Beneath 

Frigid, numbing

Green fighting blue

Rough, rolling

Turbulent, angry.

Swirling, ripping

Tearing apart.

Cold ocean hates

Flesh itself.

Cold water ocean

Warm water sea. 

God, stir blue green,

Dip Your Hands

Where cold fights,

Warm soothes.

Rescue me 

From cold.

Hold me 

In Your Warmth.

I cry out for You.

Silence of the Letter S

Dez Pain

Still...still....quiet

Don't move...legs shivering...so cold... water

Noise ahead

Rustling

You okay? ...'m okay

Nod...nod...

Signal....flare...sky

Go! Go! Go!

God, I am so scared 

Source: Michael Bells


Never forget those who said these words.

Scared

little girl

Such a pretty kid...How old did you say?

Her name is Vicky and she was twelve years old.

Do they know yet what happened?  

They?  You mean the detectives?

Who else would I mean?  Yeah.  Them.

They don't know.  Some kid found her in the creek, under the ice.

She....Vicky must have floated downstream...

       Then the ice froze over her...her folks waited for so long...

How are Ken and Sheila holding out?

'Bout as expected.  You taking food in for the family?

  Yeah, Lisa fixed some chicken something or other.  And a pie, peach pie.

I wonder if or when they'll ever figure out...find out what you did?

God, I hope not.  I didn't mean to...the car swerved..she just appeared and...

You must, you have to tell them what happened.

She was so scared...at the end.

       She was scared before that...you could have saved her...she would still be alive.

Father, I wasn't thinking...
     
        Time to own up, Tim...Time to give Ken and Sheila peace.

Scared...so scared.  I am so scared.

       So was she, Tim. So was she.

In 2014 This photo was the prompt and sadly this is what it inspired. As a teacher, all the "Amber Alerts"  caught me. There was a Stephanie, Jennifer...too many that disappeared only to be found a decade later.  

We had just had an Amber Alert and the poor sweetheart wasn't found weeks. The pedophilia man was given death penalty and in 2014 it was ruled that death penalty wasn't allowed in California.

My students kept asked about this little girl until I told them she had died and was found.  They were devastated. 

This is a dark streak that I don't follow down that rabbit hole, but today I have traveled there.