Born By The Sea

Born by the Sea

1 leave my isolated rock
Ahead of an advancing tide
and, dripping, print the sand then dust
It off and, sandal?shod, go on
Revivified.

The sea restores me always with
Its heaving tonnage, greeny deeps
And restless, rhythmic, boom splash drag back
Lullaby. 1 synchronise
To healing peace.

Emerging energised, 1 think
Of continental people vastly
Far inland and wonder if
They feel a nameless yearning for
An unknown sea.

Dorothy Pope