REFLECTIONS...

Reflections

 

I dreamed of times that were

while inhaling salty vapor

I sat on oceans' sandy beach

with memories in easy reach

 

I questioned if time had passed

 my spirit flashed pictures in which I basked

colorful painted reality in mind

while solid structures I could not find

 

With the salty breeze as my sustenance

nourishing my past youthful substance

I sat and sailed my ship of mind

and with full spinnaker left the present behind

 

Again, I was the child playing

waves crashing on shore in early morning

cries of gulls filling the salty air

and youthful mind absorbing pleasures without a care

 

With the wealth of health

and the soft ocean breeze felt

I splashed in tidal pools

that remained ever cool

and captained my sleek schooner

under the sun of youths Summer

 

Time now has devoured those seasons past

leaving behind a meager repass

filled with joyful times of long ago

that my aging spirit still craves ever so