Daylight creeps forward to where the land ends.
Dew settles, waiting, on plants in the sand.
We can almost see the past.
She can almost hear the water.
I can almost feel a soul slip through my thoughts to the world after.
Your reach should exceed all that you can grasp.
The purpose of their "heaven," is exactly that.
Lead me through my memory.
Remind me you were happy.
Murmur symbols on that beach- in a code, now only you can speak.
Keep moving forward.
Pretend, then be.
Stay young, stay foolish.
Thoughts reach toward the sea.
from
Dead Reckoning,
released April 13, 2015
"Andrea Del Sarto", line 98 -Robert Browning.
"The Hollow Men", line 1 -T.S. Eliot
"Written in Pencil I'm the Sealed Railway Car" -Dan Pagis (Hebrew)
Psalm 23:4 -Bible (Hebrew)
"The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" lines 45-48 -T.S. Eliot
"Stay young, stay foolish." -Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford Commencement Address,