The beach
and I
alone
the winter night
I hear its sigh
mingling
with my own
there are words
in silence
between us
a strange kinship
forged in stillness
I can't explain why
my feet touch
the soft tender sand
a vibration
it does seem
to travel through
my total being
am I in a dream?
I feel
there's life
hidden
vibrant
in its every particle
and atom
I'm reminded
all at once
nature is a miracle
in every manifestation
open to the sympathetic eye
the sea recedes
at a late hour
it sings a dirge
as though
in a painful cry
the sky
is empty
no cloud
is in sight
the moon shivers
the stars slowly
away they fade
and die
man and nature
each bears a heart
they share rapture
and pain they harbour
against the backdrop
of time and its temper
Sturm und Drang
the sweet and sad songs
they had at the beginning
together embraced
and sung
after tonight
I'll never be
the same again
for life's mystery
I have tasted
and drunk
the hours quicken
the trees they wail
and the winds they sail
in gentle sweep
the leaves are shaken
a voice ethereal drifts
through the waters
the ripples are silenced
I harken
as though
in obedience:
' I'm the first
of time
but willed
not to be the last
enchained
like Prometheus
to unending years
yet humans not one
do know my tears
and you whom
I meet tonight
will carry my message
and relate my story
and agony
near and far
for how blessed
you humans are
to know
the taste
of mortality'.
Jul 12, 2018
Jul 12, 2018 at 9:35 PM UTC
The beach
and I
alone
the winter night
I hear its sigh
mingling
with my own
there are words
in silence
between us
a strange kinship
forged in stillness
I can't explain why
my feet touch
the soft tender sand
a vibration
it does seem
to travel through
my total being
am I in a dream?
I feel
there's life
hidden
vibrant
in its every particle
and atom
I'm reminded
all at once
nature is a miracle
in every manifestation
open to the sympathetic eye
the sea recedes
at a late hour
it sings a dirge
as though
in a painful cry
the sky
is empty
no cloud
is in sight
the moon shivers
the stars slowly
away they fade
and die
man and nature
each bears a heart
they share rapture
and pain they harbour
against the backdrop
of time and its temper
Sturm und Drang
the sweet and sad songs
they had at the beginning
together embraced
and sung
after tonight
I'll never be
the same again
for life's mystery
I have tasted
and drunk
the hours quicken
the trees they wail
and the winds they sail
in gentle sweep
the leaves are shaken
a voice ethereal drifts
through the waters
the ripples are silenced
I harken
as though
in obedience:
' I'm the first
of time
but willed
not to be the last
enchained
like Prometheus
to unending years
yet humans not one
do know my tears
and you whom
I meet tonight
will carry my message
and relate my story
and agony
near and far
for how blessed
you humans are
to know
the taste
of mortality'.