Sea Shells

A lost soul looking for answers discovers a truth hidden in Nature

 

A Sea Shell

 

You may wash up on a beach

after divorce like a dream.

                                    and feel the drying heat of the sun.

 

warming you until it sets,

slipping behind the endless sea,

 

leaving room for a billions stars 

sparkling like scatted diamonds,

 

within the infinite blackness

all around you.

The sun returns

with comforting light

  revealing a billion separated shells.

 

Scattered at your feet,

 

 

They lie like the lost divided

 

singularly separated

 

from their perfect duplicate,

 

their bond of eternity

 

          now forever broken

 

Like you

 

they washed up here

 

Spun, tumbled, and thrown

 

By the caprices of currents

 

And the violence of waves.

They landed softly, silently, wearily,

 

And finally

 

At the last gentle push

of the relentless ocean.

 

Never venturing back again

 

into the sea of their past.

 

 

They rest now

 

strewn upon the grains of time

 

Bleached white by the by the burning Sun

 

In their semi selves

 

they have become complete

 

each taking its place

each playing its part

 within the random distribution

 adding color and beauty

to the sandy mosaic of the shore.