This week’s prompt ~ Causeway
For visually challenged writers, the image shows a calm seascape in half-light, with a pathway of stone leading through the waters towards the horizon.
It had always confounded him, the causeway stretched out before him standing proud leading out to sea and yet going nowhere. Just like him going nowhere.
Alone he stands on the beach
He’s come this far from all he has known
All goals and hopes smashed and out of reach
He has lost all, job, family, love and home.
The bottle’s content is his only friend
He’s cold and tired, no life he has lost all hope,
The sun sets another empty day comes to an end
Water laps his feet, tears burn his eyes he cannot cope.
Emptiness eats his soul the pain is deep like a cancer
He knows he had it all and lost it, his fault only
He was young and reckless and a bright romancer
Squandered days and nights,drink and drugs left him lonely
When did it start he does not know
But he prays it will end and soon
He lays down curled like a child, his tears flow.
Alone on the beach washed by sea and lit by moon.
His soul crosses the causeway.
May 08, 2020 @ 22:38:02
So sad and moving story.
May 09, 2020 @ 03:53:41
It is a sad one but it happens 😀
May 09, 2020 @ 03:55:52
Yes, that’s true
May 09, 2020 @ 03:59:17
Thank you for reading 💜❤️💕
May 09, 2020 @ 11:07:19
My pleasure 😇
May 08, 2020 @ 23:13:31
Heartbreaking ❤️
May 09, 2020 @ 03:54:19
Yes and sadly it happens people loose their way.💜
May 09, 2020 @ 04:49:03
A tragedy so many youngsters suffer, finding themselves old before they have lived.
May 09, 2020 @ 04:58:59
Yes I find it so very sad, why does it happen. I feel pain when I think of them. The situation we are in now is very dangerous for the young and vunerable. They don’t need to be homeless or jobless, they just are lonely and alone, with nothing to distract them … 💜
May 09, 2020 @ 07:03:00
The damage from this particular situation is far-reaching and I have to wonder whether, long term, the protection this isolation is providing for the vulnerable will not be outweighed by the damage done to the mental, physical and emotional health of entire populations.
May 09, 2020 @ 07:58:05
I agree Sue , even those who are not alone are suffering too. 💜
May 09, 2020 @ 08:56:46
Now that’s rather touching… well done
May 09, 2020 @ 08:58:33
Thank you Geoff, it a sad fact of modern life. This self isolation and social distancing just aggregates loneliness.
May 09, 2020 @ 09:17:04
Oh, Sis. How sad 😢
May 09, 2020 @ 07:58:40
Yes it is sad, and it happens 💜
May 09, 2020 @ 07:59:51
💜💜💜
May 09, 2020 @ 12:52:13
A haunting story that feels all too real. People underestimate the power of addiction, but recovery is possible. Hope hangs on the horizon. My prayer is that the wind and waves will bring hope to those who need it and they will discover they are not alone,
May 09, 2020 @ 14:24:14
Those are beautiful thoughts and I am with you on hoping that all addicts can get help 💜
May 10, 2020 @ 16:30:05
A sad story, to be sure. 😦
May 10, 2020 @ 17:25:28
Oh! It hurts to think of those lost souls out there 💔
May 10, 2020 @ 17:42:34
Agreed.
May 12, 2020 @ 11:01:32
A sad end indeed !! 😦 I loved the strength of emotions portrayed 🙂
May 12, 2020 @ 09:56:24
Thank you , it’s a beautiful photo but it emminates a sadness to me 💜
May 12, 2020 @ 11:35:59
hmmm 😦 every picture says different stories !!
May 12, 2020 @ 11:46:47
Yes indeed they do 💜
May 12, 2020 @ 11:54:35
🙂
May 12, 2020 @ 11:55:15
💜
May 13, 2020 @ 12:16:23
Thank you Sue 💜
May 13, 2020 @ 16:18:34
A very intense and emotional poem, Willow.
May 13, 2020 @ 16:46:14
Thank you Robbie 💜