lessons of tide-in and tide-out

 

Love whispered to the tide-out

And sang across the wet, reflecting sand.

We were holding hands and murmuring not words

But sounds of supplication, lyric graces.

I have learnt all this from the ocean

In lessons of tide-in and tide-out

As I think myself back to first childhood

And beyond that to floating in kind water

And love that made me and launched me

Into the salt seas of now.