As salt assaults with Azul bands
Her form beside in waning light
Through misted shroud and approaching night
I rest beyond the easeful spray
Solace of mind, contented day
Then emotions gather, settle and form
As children run and mothers warn
Emotions pregnant now overcome
Moment present, and those undone
The song, the fortune, my life stripped bare
The potent residue transports me there
Time expunged by tilted spin
Of Earth’s long journey to oblivion
Voice and face both now converge
Mixed with melody sung and heard
The hearth of childhood like grace
Smiles true and devoted safe
Mother’s embrace on unsure nights
Father’s assurance that all be right
A friend forever in summers new
Youth more precious then we knew
Graveled alleys and snowball games
Burning paper that we set ablaze
Children Born known to me
Taught me love and purity
Days together searching spent
Exist as remnants which I frequent
A brother’s love, a hero true
All the family I once so knew
Spread to wind, faded rust
Like the sand I hold, and fail to trust
The incessant tour of this reverie
Commenced now fervent reminds me
Of love’s elaborate and rhythmic gift
Through times now dead my mind does sift
The sun sinks low to quiet grave
With tinted sky I wish to save
I lay back down to brush her skin
Love born new from ash within
She wakes, she moves, I call her name
Arms found tight round adoring frame
Time irrelevant as I kiss
Lips to mine and trace her hips
The Sand and I now reconcile
Memories past cannot beguile
Salt my friend and the granting sun
Presents the time for love now won