Angelina Leonardi, Junior, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Major, from San Diego, CA
I stood in the ocean that summer night
And the brooding moon loomed, as though dying,
Swaying the tide into sorrowful sighing
Only the dull gleam of the stars brought light
The ocean breeze as a whip on my skin
And the salt of the sea upon my tongue
Listening to the calm crashes as they sung
A symphony for who I had been
My feet walked faster than my mind could think
Into the embrace of this frigid wave
All of me to the water I gave,
The fear and pain and words I let sink
Only the dull light of the sky
And watchful eyes of a dying moon
Would hear the sorrowful sinner’s tune
And cry