Running Out Of Beach

 

 

Seeking seaside solace in the late summer days of life –

the sun is hot in the sky…the kids, and husband, and wife

     to be as me with stirring thoughts - answers to questions unknown

     the noise is too much, I surreptitiously move to be alone.

 

On the shore before me, the waves are thunderously crashing

the foreigners behind me- their jibberish my mind is trashing.

     So further down I make my way, the salty air is damp

     I look around for quietude and decide to stake my camp.

 

I came here so I could ride the waves

to be a child where my memory saves

     the pictures of lovers holding hands

     …children building castles with buckets of sand.

 

I ride the waves of thoughts today

     my life in question, yet others play….how lucky are they –

     nothing from school ever did teach

 

     what to do

     when one

 

     runs

 

     out

 

                                 of

 

                                                              beach.

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright © April 2003   Amy L. Allison

 

 

 

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