~Beach at Night~

Where certain meets the changing
thoughts grow slower,
less deliberate,
in the shadowed haze
of shy and messy twilight.

Somewhere wood and strings are waltzing
gently,
softly,
through an aimless little melody
not so finite as it seems

Somewhere couples saunter
by the endless, heaving depths
some quite certain,
some unsure,
wobbling always towards tomorrow,
by way of skittish night.

Somewhere fire crackles
certain brilliance in the
dark and awkward silence
resting heavy on the sands.

Where I sit the earth is cool,
the water lively in its quest
to kiss my toes,
and blanket me in laughing, rolling cold.

My heart, a tangled, knotted mess
unraveled by the whispers of Your still and steady
Love,
is all at once,

surprisingly,

at peace.

Somewhere there are quiet, sleeping sighs,
both bitter and quite sweet,
but I can only smile at You
as, somewhere, You smile at it all…

At the lovely, messy aches
and the whelming, peaceful moments
oh so few and oh so small...

Where certain meets the changing
life is dear and
breath is deep
as I grow slowly smaller
and the seconds tumble on.