Shoreline

The Shoreline knows too well

that all of life is a series of hellos and goodbyes.

Every day the same cycle: currents ebb and flow,

a wave emerges with its beautiful power and

covers the Shoreline, washes her from end to end

before slipping, clandestine,

back into the deep.

The Shoreline embraces the temporary,

opens herself to each new wave

and its teachings, like

To love, even briefly, is to live

To love something is to set it free

Patience and resilience is a way of life

when you’re the lover of waves.