In dusk lies a light,
Sun painted on sea with pride,
A path no one walks.

I was earthbound all my life
  then I met you and we had wings
  to fly above the heavens where
  a God exists and an angel sings
  I flew too close to the sun and
  we fell in gravity's rainbow.
  Our love is forever after all.
  We were buried inside my soul.

Every living thing in this life
is harboring its ending. We
humans think it's just us.
Maybe every being knows
we are doomed. We pray
hope wish but know we die.
Turtles cross roads know risk.
Bugs fly fearless near light
know a magazine can ****.
We will never have been.

hope lives within us
all we have to do
is let it fly out

A view of the ocean
reminds me of relationships 
I watch the rocks either 
being kissed by the waters

ever so gently
again and again

Or the rocks being pounded 
into a form of submission 
by an insistent ocean

ever so violently 
again and again

The rocks never move
The ocean never gives up
And yet...the rocks erode ...over time
There's a lesson in there somewhere 
I'll ponder it later...maybe in a poem

I carry on with my walk under 
the hot summer sun
leaving rock and ocean 
relationships behind me.

©Vivian Zems

It's all here
the pen
the paper
and the poet
perfectly
existing
simultaneous
in the
same
space
at
one
time...