Song of Mortality

A song of mortality Begins somewhere distant near the horizon With the immensity of the sea A rhythmic rolling in time to a sound from her depths As it has always been and always will be A continuous voicing of wind and water Singing and longing of forever From where we once came so we recognize her lament She heaves in and out Count out the seconds between her rages A descending trough and rising crest With each an increase in strength and volume She swells and gathers momentum and increases her tempo Her dark mouth opens and stretches to take us in As she arrives in a collapsing fall to embrace the shore.