Complete by Don Tassone

 I sat on a beach

Looking out over the vast ocean

Feeling small and alone

I watched a single wave roll in

First large

Then small

Lapping at my feet

Before returning to its larger self

The ocean

Less one small wave

Is not the ocean

Each one completes it

I sat on a beach

Looking out over the vast ocean

Feeling small still

But complete

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Don Tassone is the author of four short story collections and a novel. His very short stories have been described as prose poems. He lives in Loveland, Ohio.