Friday, 15 March 2024

When Tides Recede

 

When Tides Recede

 

You remember dreaming it could never leave,

a rallying Spring before Summer, breathing

fistfuls of swelling tide, flooding two chests,

breaking dams to overflow your swooning head,

two battling pounding rib-caged fighters

unbridled dun clouds and days dawned brighter.

So gracefully you surfed lithe, barreled skies,

rode unleashed breakers, topped gravity,

that no autumn could usher in winter weeds,

and denied darkening days might bring grief,

yet here you survey dry expansive sands,

his receding tides lay bare your desert lands.



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