and, as i stood there on an unpeopled shore, as the waves rolled in, one following the other, i knew with certainty, as in a remembered dream, that there was no returning neither a going back nor a turning away...
i felt the salt spray, cold on my face, and now i heard the sea birds and looked, to see them wheeling above the water, now diving and fighting one another for the catch
and the beach, a grit of seashell white, seemed as the ocean itself, endless, the evidence of great age all about me in the sand quartz ground from the action of the water upon the mountains eroding even these wearing down everything in time am i the sand, always washing away, or the waves, eternally crashing against the shore