The Sea Part I

 
Posted July 27, 2004 at 11:47:49 AM

In April,I went to the beach for the weekend. While roaming the beach early one morning I took a picture that came out remarkably well. Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in while. I printed it and then added this little piece to the picture. I can't post the picture here out of repect for the privacy of the lady in it but here is what I wrote to go with the picture. It started with the first line which is a quote of something she told me she felt when she walked to the ocean's edge for the first time in a while.

"Do you remember me?" She asked the Sea
"Of course I do, you are my child"
"How can you remember me?", She said
"There are so many of us who come to you."

"True" said the Sea. "Why do you come to me?"
"I do not know how to say it. I feel it though."
"What do you feel? asked the Sea
"Is it that you are home?"

"Maybe. When was it that you first touched me?"
"When? Don't you remember standing at my door?"
"I don't think so. Did I knock?
"You did not need to, I knew you were there"

"The spindrift across your feet was my welcome.
My gulls and terns told me of your innocence.
And shifting sand beneath you as the water flowed
Was my answer that you were my child."

And then the Sea murmured and shrugged,
Her glassy shoulders as if to sigh in gratitude
That her little one was still her child.
Innocent still, with outspread arms.