Sunset Bleed

We drowned in the sea
you and me,
bloated and soft,
with sand between our webbed feet,
we walked and crawled
and smiled and died

Smoke rose from the hot pools,
crabs dived in a frenzy,
dead turtles swam ashore,
the sunset bled orange
and our fingers wrinkled
to a bleached white

The tide came in
and when the water rushed back
the beach was bare
except you and me
and empty sea shells and dead fish
and our naked souls
scaterred here and there