BEACHES

Beaches talk to us.
They speak of vastness and loneliness.
Waves tell us of power and rhythm,
of texture and design.
Waves on sands speak in one style.
Waves on rocks speak quite another,
such as the waves in our lives.
The white music of the ocean
drumming the shore
drowns all sounds by its endlessness,
such as we drown
in the endlessness of our spirits.

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