Then
I remember sitting alone on a long stretch
of sun-kissed Mediterranean beach
Feeling powerfully young and beautiful
Feeling my heart swell and roar like the ocean
Giggling as little rippling waves in rows
hurried to kiss and tickle my toes
Leaving them clothed in lacy frills
like ten little brides at a wedding!
I remember feeling immortal then
Then when the sunset held the promise of tomorrow
and dawn bathed in golden streams of light
Birds sang in my young heart then
When the universe moved through me
When I dreamed dreams wild with hope
When the thrill of possibility
saturated me with an unquenchable longing
How I would love to go back to that stretch of beach
where I sat with my frothy toes and vowed to find love
I would tell the ocean I had kept my pledge
and had found enduring love and fulfilment
But I would ask the ocean
why this heart of mine holds its grief so tightly
Why it is unable to cut the last mooring rope...
Perhaps the ocean will tell me?
Copyright © Sheila Sacks | Year Posted 2017
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