Title: The Man on the Beach
Form: poem
Language: en
Canonical URL: https://pembaumoja.com/en/poems/el-hombre-en-la-playa
Original: https://pembaumoja.com/es/poems/el-hombre-en-la-playa

The man walked
and walked
on the beach
with a large, heavy backpack.

The people of the community,
in their big houses,
watched him from their windows.

No one else walked by the sea.

Only he,
with slow steps
and a broken leg.

He walked and walked
through the sunset
until the stars
shone.

The people,
from their windows,
grew tired
and fell asleep standing up

while the man
disappeared
into the glow
of the moon.
