Unmitigated

My life is like a stroll upon the beach. - Thoreau

demeaned by their gall

an angry sea slaps black rocks

'tide' precedes the fall

Author's Note

"The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-travelled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime." - Thoreau