A Word

 

 

Softly spoken: a Word.

Over and over, we hear its murmur—

It is a Voice wishing to awaken us.

It is Memory of our renewal,

                             desire of our soul,

a manifestation of all to be called up

                                  from the deep.

Out of the Sea, a Word,

heralding our true destiny.


O and yet desire is half-buried

                              in the sand—

We are the shells that sleep.

Upon a weathered shore we sleep.

O why is it so long we must sleep?

But we dream...


How the sound of the Sea we echo

        until

the Word of our awakening we hear—

All the while, a Voice is murmuring

softly in our ear...