UNTOUCHABLE LETTERS

 

Fragments of torn and discarded phrases

settle soft upon sand and wave

Kissed before sunrise, bearing rouge

That stain from love's longing kiss

Part of a whole they were just hours before

A letter read thousand times ten thousand

that trembling hands set free at first light

Into an ocean filled with hopeful anticipation

Was it good or bad none will ever know

for the letter shred before dawn

brought smile and frown in equal measure

perhaps the crabs might pinch a clue 

Have you been party to ravaging of remarks

a broken bond or a renewed secret tryst

dismembered and left to fly into nature's lap

Adding to her collection of untouchable letters