Sea Shore

Walking on the beach as my feet touch the wet sand

I began to look at my life and carefully untangling each strand

What I missed out in life and what life offered me

Peace and tranquil, soothed by the beauty of bounty

Like these endless clouds laden with rain, full of hope

I begin with my earliest thoughts of childhood

My innocent laughter caught me off guard

I heard the playful tunes my feet danced to,

Followed by innocent day dreaming and girlish giggles

Loitering lazily in hot summers and climbing trees

Wondering how to get the best fruit on offering

No tensions of tomorrow no worries of the world

Could ruffle my long tresses or bother my jolly stride

Full of confidence to take on the world by its horns

Artistic and articulate I was thought

Saw every thing with dreamy eyes

When my dreams became nightmares I do not know

When laughter turned into sobs I did not realise,

I was jolted to the horrid facts of life

Fighting with a wooden sword the battle was of course lost.

It seemed that lessons of love were not true

All the values were no where, good and evil did not fair

There were vices I was never aware of, deceit I never saw

Trust was an abstract noun not to be found

Lacking courage to start anew,

Bruised and hurt, with torn wings I dare not fly

Mending them would take awhile delaying flight for some time

Not taught to ever give up recollected myself

like the very birds that adorn this beach sky

Repaired and rejuvenated for yet another journey

East ward or west ward, I do not care

For life only teaches those who dare.

As each wave kisses the sand with a new tide

This restless sea gave me a lesson of continuity,