Dominic Black's "Hell Of A Paradise" puts you in a spot that looks lovely but feels like a trap. The speaker keeps asking about "crashing sounds" and "hits when they land," which suggests waves, or something just as heavy, pounding again and again. Nothing about it is calm. It is a place where you can't run and can't stand, so there is no way to escape and no firm ground to rest on.
The title's mix of hell and paradise sets up the central tension. The second stanza calls the place "so beautiful" yet says "no one wants to be" there, and the speaker is afraid even to breathe or look. The last stanza repeats the crashing, but now the speaker is "stuck in the deep dark blue," which suggests being underwater or lost in something bigger than them. The only hope is "the sight of sand," a small image of land and safety.
The mood is tense and desperate. The poem could describe the sea, but it may also be a picture of feeling overwhelmed, where something that should feel good has become suffocating.