Let’s take a walk through ocean town

before sand erosion sucks it down

let’s wade waist deep into foaming waves

where 8,000,000 tons of plastic made its grave

let’s enjoy this day on the sandy shore

knowing 30 years from now it’ll be no more.

"Let's take a walk through an ocean town"

But I fear the ocean. It makes me feel small

"Let's take a walk through an ocean town"

No, please no

"Let's take a walk through an ocean town"

Fine. But promise not to push me in the ocean

"Let's take a walk through an ocean town"

Promise? Please.

"Let's take a walk through an ocean town"

Ok. Let's go

"Let's take a walk through an ocean town"

We're here. Hey, where did you go?

"Take a walk through the ocean town"

Just me? No. Wait. Is this what being born feels like?

"Just take a walk through the ocean town"

Please, no. You can't leave me here. I'll die

"We will all die someday"

I can't breathe, please!

Please

"You're just imagining your fears"

I am?

Yeah. You're probably right.

"Just go through it. You will be fine"

You're right. Okay. I'll meet you on the other side of the town?

"Maybe"

Fine. I'm fine. I'm just imagining my fears

Hey. I'm actually fine

No, please. Help me. I won't get through.

You're not here, are you?

I'm just letting my emotions take control of me

See? I'm fine. Absolutely fine

Wait, no! The water is so close

Breathe. Breathe. You're on the shore, you're fine

"You didn't get through. You got swallowed by the ocean. I'm disappointed"

Me too

Me too.

Ocean town? I took this angle(Out of respect) It’s not the mirror image of that fabulous view @Finder had found.

On our way down the old ocean hwy. Daughters playing Eye Spy. I can catch the smiling if I look sideways. We first crossed the old bridge over old ocean spillway. And turned onto ocean way just in time for sunset. The sun surf and sand in front of the Ocean Inn. Will be well met. By the two little terrors black and blue from bruising. You can bet.

In yesteryear maybe. You’d run smack dab into a sea of azure blue. If you spaced out and didn’t hang a left onto Ocean front drive. Where the remains of old Ocean Wharf extends from. Her decrepit structure hanging out over nothing but sand now. The water retreated a hundred miles from here a decade ago. When the river dried up. Ocean towns tourists did the same. So the merchants rolled up. They had enough. People think you got to be made out of tuff stuff to live out here now. I say it’s never been better my neighbors a cow.

Come, walk with me

through the streets of an ocean town

we'll stroll down the boardwalk

and I'll show you what I see

We'll look at the sky reflected by the water

and the boats sailing the waves

and we'll wonder: just what swims below?

whats there where we can't see?

Because the sea reflects the sky

shielding its contents from view

much like people reflect each other

hiding their true thoughts behind a two-way mirror

Strolling through an ocean town

or through an ocean of people

all you'll see is a reflection of the outside

but at least I can always look to the sky

Let's take a walk through an ocean town.

Let's smell the breeze and listen to the gulls call

So that when we're apart we can remember ourselves here

Remember the time we had before the fall.

Let's take a walk through an ocean town.

As the smell of fish and chips flavour the air

Maybe one day we'll return and feast on them again

If we can find courage to mend the tear.

Let's take a walk through an ocean town.

We could go crab-hunting amongst the rocks

Using our size and scaring the little critters

Until the monsters landed on the docks.

Let's take a walk through an ocean town.

Death is cruel and cowardly, and so was I

I wish I could have done more

When your turn came to die.

Let's take a walk through an ocean town.

Alone now, through these streets I roam

Smashed buildings become new, seagulls and crabs return

But your tombstone is my home.

Let's take a walk through ocean town.

Let your ghost hold my bloodstained hand

Please forgive me for not loving you enough

Until God my soul demands.

Let's take a walk through my ocean town.

Let's take a walk... through an ocean town

Where the sky is blue and the sea is bluer.

Where the gulls laugh

And so do the passing children.

It may take a while to get there.

The walk may be long

But the walk in the ocean town

Will be so much longer.

It will be a place where the sun never sets.

Daytime forever, where you smile the whole time

As you look to the ocean.

Our final destination.

We were lost.

Our sky had been covered not by clouds but obscured by clear water.

A nymph held my hand pulling me.

The nymph whispered in my ears.

"Lets take a walk through an ocean town."

Let’s take a walk in an ocean town

As the sun rises or mayhap as it goes down

Pearly soft light

dimming to night

Where deep ebon becomes golden peach glow

on the froth of waves as the day does grow

Wheeling gulls in dazzling blue sky

pelicans diving into azure sea nigh

Lapping swells breaking over wandering feet

crashing thunder where cliffs ocean do meet

A fish market stands on a time worn pier

a seal’s harsh bark from rocks jumbled near

Salty sweet air

skin almost bare

Sandy white beaches

as a lover beseeches

Their lover’s forgiveness

with audacious brashness

Let’s take a walk in an ocean town

and clear your mind away from your frown

Let's take a walk through an ocean town today

where the buildings line both sides of the road

I'm picturing a gray Maine day, maybe late October or something.

and orange leaves blowing by through the streets and the wind would feel like water.

Maybe we'll stop in one of those places that sell a 5 dollar coffee

and we can sit and talk about nothing,

on a day with nothing to do.

Maybe we'll drive up to Boston tomorrow,

and wander through the park again,

starting, stopping,

people watching,

always something going on with them.

we can buy a pack of cigarettes and share one after lunch

and later stop in a small book shop, not buying, just looking around.

Maybe it'll be cloudy that day and the rain can paint the street

that slick and shiny oil color that looks like it tastes sweet.

And I'll step in it accidentally,

walking out of the bar

and my last words would be "aw man",

as I'm hit by a drunk driver's car.

He said it so casually, 3 AM, no plan.

"Let's take a walk through an ocean town."

We were weekend warriors

Always on the run

In a permanent state of getaway

What's wrong with where we are?

What's so tragic about home?

He says, "I feel myself getting older.

The clock in the kitchen

Ticks too loudly

Like a bomb in my head

And I'd rather be anywhere else."

I wonder how soon anywhere

Could turn into with anyone

How soon until the ticking in me

Is a bomb inside him that explodes?

So I say "Let's take a walk through an ocean town."

I hate the beach

The ticky tacky cheapness

Of the would-be ocean trinkets

In rundown shops

It's January

Who goes to a beach town in January

Except a man terrified of time

And the woman who loved him too fondly?

The cold air whips

My fraying curls about

But his arm's in my arm

And I'm warm.

I make the plans and I fold the maps

His delicate artist hands

Could never be held in the cages

Of schedules or plans

"That's why I have you." he says

And I smile, because he has me

Which means I still have him

But for how long?

Until the lines on my face

Echo my age?

I won't be young forever.

Will you still want to be seen

On a boardwalk hand in hand

With me once my hair starts to gray?

I find myself wondering

In the future you see

The one where you never grow old

Is it still me, ten years away

To which you say

"Let's take a walk through an ocean town?"