i must now ebb

the time has come

to sail my oceans

rolling away from you

like the waves from the shore

rippling out to the vastness of

that sea that beckons

my ship of folly

i’ll not ask you

to stand the night vigil

on the shoreline

of memory

you are here

on the beaches of my memory

even though i drift the tides

if you should look

into a starlit night

and see a reflection of me

know only that

i will one day

come crashing again

to the shore

swept homeward

by the pull

of the tide

and

YOU..