The crab crawled up the sand
\nwith a certain anguish.
\nI felt kinship with the little crustacean.
\nI knew he would not be going back,
\ninto the salt and dark dreams of the sea.
\nHe had come to die away from his home.
\nWas it to see where the light was?
\nThat he had seen his whole existence?
\nAnd in his last anguish
\nlonged to find.
\nI did not touch him or throw him back.
\nI left him, knowing the sea
\nwould reach for him in its tide,
\nwhen the sun went down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The crab crawled up the sand with a certain anguish. I felt kinship with the little crustacean. I knew he would not be going back,…<\/p>\n