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You on the Beach

by Dan Linn


I see you on the beach in my mind,
at the edge of tolerance and surrender,
holding your pains like treasure,
loves like wings, without other things,

And swaying with the waves,
you threaten to rise like a leaf,
or roll like driftwood in the tide,
but you stand in the shifting sand.

Your mission here
is to sum your tears
with the salt of the world
and open your skin
to the sting of being aware.

For we are larger and smaller
than all we can perceive.

04/14/2013

Author's Note: My wife is at the beach.

Posted on 04/14/2013
Copyright © 2025 Dan Linn

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by LK Barrett on 04/14/13 at 10:36 PM

...lovely, elegant, and true...three attributes that make any work work remembering and coming back to...I will this. Thank you for the write, Dan! lk

Posted by LK Barrett on 04/14/13 at 10:38 PM

that was "...three attributes that make any work worth remembering and coming back to..." It's almost as though I hadn't slept for joy...lk

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