Lost In My Thoughts

Half Moon Bay State Beach / Coastal Trail - Half Moon Bay, CA

Mission Peak - Fremont, CA

Western States Trail / American River - Auburn, CA

Angel Island - San Francisco, CA

Marin Headlands / Lagoon Trail / Rodeo Beach /  Coastal Trail / Mendell Trail / Bird Island Overlook Marin, CA

Lands End Trail / China Beach / Sutro Baths - San Francisco, CA

The sea breeze caresses my skin because the crashing waves have done too much damage. Tidal waves strip my identities across the sandy beaches. Tsunamis of fear and anger devours my soul and drags it along the deep ocean floor, picking up the pieces of keys to missing locks. I'm swept into the sea, drowning in an ocean of seduction and lies, gasping for air, seeking hope and redemption. Inhaling the present and exhaling the past on the surface of the ocean,  but the surface was I all I ever knew. Gazing at the glimmers of hope in the sky, stars existing galaxies away.  But the moon casting shadows of failure and defeat. So, I'm just floating in the ocean for the time being with no sense of direction, north, east, south, and west but I do understand, right, wrong, good, and bad. So, I'm just floating in the ocean for the time being. I haven't lost sight of the shore, but I've already come so far from where I used to be. So in...