If You Just Close Your Eyes
I’m walking on an empty beach. The sun is setting behind me giving off its final rays of light and warmth in the dying day. Not a soul on the sand. The people are already leaving the ghostly town that used to be busy as a hive in the blazing days of the season. Now it is just an empty shell with desolate beaches and closed hotels.
I’m walking through the sand. Long forgotten footsteps cross the beach and lead to the water. I stop and turn the way they are going. I close my eyes and see a little boy running through the sunny beach and into the water, splashing it wildly around. It makes me smile.
I continue through the sands to the end of the beach and the road that leads to the town. I stop at the empty parking lot. Something is shimmering on the pavement. I walk closer and find a coin. I close my eyes and see a man tripping on a beach ball and a hale of shiny coins hist the pavement.
Continuing down the road through a small forest I hear the waves crashing on the rocks. The thunder is multiplied tenfold by the giant trees. I stop for a moment and listen in awe. The sounds remind me of a summer storm sweeping through the coastline with tremendous force and speed and then disappearing as fast as it has come. I see the first hotels at the end of the tree line. I walk in the town. I close my eyes. I see crowds walking the road to the beaches. Around them is a small galaxy of colorful shops and boots selling everything you can imagine. Towels are drying on nearby terraces resembling heraldic flags of ancient fortresses.
I reach the end of town and stand at the road leading to the big cities where all the people have gone back to. I close my eyes and see a car driving slowly out of town. There’s a man, a woman and a little girl in the car. Just as I’m about to lose sight of the car I see the girl’s face on the rear window. She’s looking back to the endless summer nights, the sun, the beach, the sea…She’s looking back to the hopes and dreams that emerge only under the blazing skies and over the scorching hot beaches…
You can also see them if you just close your eyes…
