This pool of life thats there
and the virgin that is the air
its rare, they tear at my being
to return to what I am
and only then will I start seeing
Aghast I look around
there are others who are bound
part of a crowd, to gather, soak and swirl
sometimes near but in the distance
my focus is at a girl
But only momentary
my eyes are a bottle full of sherry
they're heavy, a warmth in my eyelids
remembering happy days playing in the sandpit
free from thounght and just a kid
The thud, the power of her surge
she washed up like a sea urchin
its urgent, yet time seems stilted
standing there my feet below the ground
ankles surfaced and wet
A gull whisper by
secret message tellingme why
a sigh, as all thoughts slowly melt away
the rythm of this life
is day by day, a warming ray
Time notches wave by wave
I've got it now no longer a slave
I waver, between softness and an intensity
that is the wave and the wash
gnawing away at the city
Then the moment is gone!