Waves

Memories of a special moment

I follow your feet

Foot-flopping down through

The sand dunes following

Your footsteps,

Following,

Following, eye held.

The beach bows

Softly into the land’s back,

Long-fetched waves arching

In response.

I gaze at your footfall

Jellying the sand.

A presence of you, but

Not you.

Your love of the crashing surf

Carries you away from me

Not lost, just drifting

In your stillness,

Pondering your thoughts,

Breathing your dreams,

Sighing your hopes.

Together, love and love

We turn-

Turn in heaven’s stillness

Living life, in awareness of our reality.

The dead penguin,

Eyeless, looks into our souls,

Sees our eternity

As we tread back for breakfast.

Love and loved.

 

(Smiths Beach 2010)