The Ocean Gate

On we push
down the long tunnel
Voices grow and bubble
people form, brown coats
a cartwheel of crowd, pushing ever onward
packages in paper, so many bags on backs and carts.
We are the sea.
A builder meanders on with his family.
We are squashed against an iron gate
the chains lift, it opens to ocean.

© Mark Sheeky. Permission is required for reproduction.