Tides

Tides

Life sweeps in torrid tides,

Ebb and flow,

Ebb and flow.

 

She drags she swamps, she breaks, she sighs,

Ebb and flow,

Ebb and flow.

 

Unrelenting, faint hearts she seeks,

Swish and swirl,

Swish and swirl.

 

Her calm belies deep stormy peaks,

Swish and swirl,

Swish and swirl.

 

Her bounty vast beyond man’s price,

Crash and boom,

Crash and boom.

 

Take your chances, roll her dice,

Crash and boom,

Crash and boom.

 

Her victims lay broken on crags and rocks,

Hiss and foam,

Hiss and foam.

 

Victors sail breezes to her distant docks,

Hiss and foam,

Hiss and foam.

 

Stand still, stand long that she may show,

Ebb and flow,

Ebb and flow.

 

Her rythym, her moods, her depths, her glow,

Ebb and flow,

Ebb and flow.

 

15th January 2004

 

Copyright Pierre Nunns