YOU

Come to the place
of your truths,
the shoreline
of laughter
and imagination,
the music of waves
seducing sand.

I need you
when I
least expect it.
Not in the danger
or storm,

but when
the wind
is still,
tide pulling,
sun and moon
together
yet apart,

for beauty
is mystery,
the depths
never seen,

you,
a world hidden
by the sea,
waiting in
pristine silence
for the loneliness
to end.

-Jerry Ebert