The Cabo Rojo lighthouse rests at the foot of limestone cliffs overlooking the edge of the earth.

An aqua-colored pool of sea kisses the face of warm island under the heat of the Caribbean sun. Spectators gaze upon the tropical romance. Iguanas, butterflies and gulls. All witness the everyday burst of life at the edge of the world.

Just behind the lighthouse rests a vast salt flat. Half blue with water and half pink; an oversaturation of salt. The latter, colored as if an Easter pink candle the size of the island itself had been left to melt in the scorching Puerto Rican sun, and pooled between the sea and the rolling southwestern hills.

Calm and quiet. Tired, warm and worn; I had finally found paradise.

- Faro de Los Morrillos, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. (October, 2018)