Each Wave That Breaks

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I wandered the stretch of beach below our house until my feet felt raw in my shoes. I dumped my damp sand-crusted Converse on the wooden deck outside my room each morning. My feet were red with blistering the skin rubbed pink from the sand caught between my foot and the canvas. This was my life now as the one who survived; I was the only ghost haunting the living. That was what I had discovered when I awoke from that night-a ghost isn't the dead haunting the living it's the living who are left behind by the dead. So now you know that everyone dies. You just don't know who and I just don't understand why...</span></p>