A Memory in Sand and Water - Cummins

A breeze blows across the sunlit sand
Water waves and bows before the land
I sit interrupting beauty
With a pen in hand thinking of her

My notebook is alive with her now
My pen is bleeding her remembrance
Nostalgia takes me away again
The sea and I have these in common

My mind is turbulent blurry
I am blown by the wind as well now
My pen and my paper bring me back
I crash against the shores now stable

I would take it back now my dear friend
I would take it back now dear lover
Only I am the one who loves you
Oh to be the one loved by you here

It is more than a memory lost
That I see your face in every dream
A secret it has been kept from you
For better to only remain close

A friendship that started long ago
Two constants we were to each other
Yet lost in words we dared not let out
We kept it secret to spare a loss

Years now it’s been and memory fades
Though I find you here in these pages
A picture painted with words in ink
And now I see it was beautiful

The breeze blows again across the sand
Sunlight has faded into sunset
The water is calm on the surface
And so would I appear at this hour

Underneath the tides are still pulling
And you are always here in my mind
The water recedes now from the sand
And you are always here in my mind.

- M. Cummins, March 2008