Sand Castles

So, I am about to take off for a week again, but thought I'd leave you with something. I took this picture, kind of liked it and was playing around with something to write about it. Then, in the far recesses of my mind, a memory stirred and it seemed to me I once wrote something called Sand Castles. Lo and behold, I went straight to the right old journal ( I mean, we are talking decades here) and found it on my first try. So here you go. From a very young, work-in-progress me.......to you. It's kinda sweet....

 

 

 

Sand Castles

 

I built us a castle

of the finest sand my love could find

I made it our kingdom

our paradise, our refuge

We were king and queen

Untouchable

Nothing could come between

you and I.

 

Monsters, demons and devils

they all passed our way

our castle held strong

weathered every gale

withstood every storm

We didn't have much

but for a spell

it was enough.

 

We lived each day as a fairytale

Cocooned in a shell

of gilded dreams

our love the finest pearl

or so I thought

 

For Time has a funny way

of changing the face of life

And what one day

seems so real

The next

can seem the strangest dream.

 

So it is

my fine castle

vanished before my eyes

In the single swell

of an oncoming tide.

 

As I sat and watched

helpless to the change

A sweet voice

whispered in my ear.....

 

It was just a sandcastle,

no more

no less real

Than your past and your future

Reality is now

It is here.