Cumulative Grief

our bodies 

our emotional 

wreckage

our cumulative 

grief 

is piling up

is washing 

onto the grim sands 

of the beach

choked with plastic 

littered 

with the cadavers 

the offspring 

of our discarded 

houses

in the black waves

we are wading 

thigh deep

to where the discarded nets 

wait to tangle us

in their tripwires 

in their twisted 

webs 

all this 

we have wrought

all this 

we are 

responsible for 

our 

cumulative

grief