Memory Tides

Was that yesterday or last year my mind wanders now You were here laughing your smiling face turned to the sun We walked along the shoreline and we kissed Was that real or just another trick of memory The seagulls mock me with raucus glee calling and fleeing as I turn the sand feels cold under my feet and the sea colder I thought it would be warmer Or was that yesterday or last year There is another on the beach She walks with aimless abandon Like me Perhaps she too is lost Strolling on a beach of memory Close to the sunshine of her past She too stops at the Gulls taunt Looking but not seeing before returning to her own tide The wind gusts And I remember your hair Tossed and swirling in the breeze Giggling as a wave caught you by surprise was that you was it me was it yesterday or last year