Sugar sand beaches reach the horizon Water so far it is naught but a glimmer in the distance Sitting in the warmth of that powder-like earth The sun seems to set over a desert Purple and pink in smoking swirls of Heaven Sopping up the beauty in open pores Ready to receive all that is offered Watching the sun begin to slumber As Luna's light begins to shine in bulbous splendor The glimmer seems to twinkle as brightly as the stars as they awaken Multiplying by the moment Mesmerizing, as the lights seem to grow The air changes, a little cooler now The sand turns to black glass glistening in the moonlight Slowly taking over the horizon Watching the twinkling onyx reflect the night sky Almost hypnotized by the melodic whisper The only evidence of life within the breezeless air As black meets gray, the warmth of the water glides further Swallowing the shore inch by inch Blanketing all as it comes upon its farthest outstretched reach Bathing in the warmth of black water, Stippled with the most brilliant twinkling reflections Wrapped in the heat of the night Consumed by the darkness, by the stars, by the very heat of the earth Slowly, deliberately, the water rises Basking in the beauty of a sea that came to greet all who care to notice As the ripples and waves wash over the footprints Erasing the day and birthing it anew The moon smiles its bright smile The sand swims by unseen And the stars shine like the brightest diamonds in the light of the moon