Pacific Sands

Pacific Sands

the waves that are lapping
that are coming onshore
are waters of the Pacific
that have been here before

the ebb and the flow
the continuous sound
sometimes they’re gentle
sometimes they pound

tune in to the rhythm
tune in to the sound
the waters are like a pulse
a heartbeat to be found

or is it the breathing
the in and the out
an expansion, contraction
that continues without

without any conscious awareness
of having to do
a continuous consistency
to plug into too

like sands that receive
the waves of the ocean
and shorelines that are molded
by the continuous motion

we too are formed
by what we receive
and how we respond
and choose to perceive

Pacific Sands of the shorelines
expanses of great beauty
multitudes of tiny crystals
holding wisdom as a duty

a duty to record
all thoughts and emotions
the history of life
from the land and the oceans

the waters receive them
and hold them within
and take them to shorelines
where an emptying begins

depositing each
in a crystal of sand
the shorelines hold the records
and the love of this land


gagi      11/16/14