July 20, 2021Poem

As I walk this lonely shore

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As I walk this lonely shore

Waves rushing in

Oblivious to my ruminations

The roiling sea

Churning up the sand

Exposing the undertow

Do I wait for you

How long will be eternity

As the last sun falls

Below the far horizon

Will I see its like again

Do I chase beyond

Those rose-red clouds

Higher than the haze

Of windborne dust

Deflecting light to fuel

A romantic

Vision of nostalgia

Every shell could be

A bed for Aphrodite

Is this to be the way of it

A symbol of my love for you

The passion of our play

The rolling of the surf

A simple epithet

To mark the moment

Of an eternal union

No return for Shelley

On a rhymeless afternoon

Even as moonbeams fall

And the angels kiss the sea

I wait for you

To walk with me

For all eternity.