A world just like my own
But with some small, unsubtle change
Lavender sun
Cobalt clouds
Canary sky
I love
That I get to bring
Such visions to life
Lavender sun
Cobalt clouds
Canary sky
I love
That I get to bring
Such visions to life
Though I flinch
In a fusillade
Of wind and rain
I stay on deck
Deep breath
A deep breath
In place and time
Crossing
From what was
To what will be
From the holding on
Returning
To the letting go
Three drift
Lazily
On unseen currents
And gestures of
Some subtle local breeze
Yet held fast
In approximate array
By anchor chains
Deployed to ocean floor
Ordered chaos
Flurry of growth
Fluid
Thick
Wherever opportunity
Permits
And often
Where it seems not
Cuts through the gloom
Lights up the night
Love’s the call
Which sets me right
They rush onto the long
Shallow slope of sand
Which gradually saps their strength
Reduces their presence
Until they peter out before me
Weakened to ripples
Barely able to disturb the sand
Gnarled and frozen
In time
The crest which took
A million years
To break
Whether just a patch of green
Or misshapen spindly tree
Harassed by wind’s
Ferocity
Life grows
It plunders
Empty place
Fills it with
Such beauty
Grace