Wednesday, February 8, 2012
eons captured by sand
i wrote something down
on the sands
of these golden shores
they laughed at me
when they saw me do this
they said it wouldn't stay
things written on sand
die an early death
like most promises
i paid no heed
i wrote what i had to
once finished
i stood aside
and smiled
they laughed harder
i don't blame them
they did not know
what i knew
i sat down
next to my words
and waited for it
the biggest wave of them all
i waited for it
when even the birds
had returned home
i stayed
it finally came
at sunset
prince like
wearing a white shape-shifting crown
on its head
i stepped aside
it read them
consumed them
gathered them
with two hands
they were gone
without a trace
taken by a force
with no face
i slept satisfied
at the very same spot
the following morrow
the ones that had laughed the loudest
arrived
and saw a clean slate
we told you they said
we told you they repeated
you were bound to lose
loose words like these
if you wanted them immortalized
you should have etched them
on the tips of the pyramids
that wouldn't have been right
not at all
i said
they would have blown away
from the tops
of the palaces of the resting Pharaohs
don't you see
i did give them eternity
for they came to me
while watching the sea
and their last wish was
within it to be
'take me into thy womb
for on these foreign shores
i feel forsaken'
the words had spelt
by being washed away
by being swept away
their last wish
their only wish
had, indeed, been met
on the sands
of these golden shores
they laughed at me
when they saw me do this
they said it wouldn't stay
things written on sand
die an early death
like most promises
i paid no heed
i wrote what i had to
once finished
i stood aside
and smiled
they laughed harder
i don't blame them
they did not know
what i knew
i sat down
next to my words
and waited for it
the biggest wave of them all
i waited for it
when even the birds
had returned home
i stayed
it finally came
at sunset
prince like
wearing a white shape-shifting crown
on its head
i stepped aside
it read them
consumed them
gathered them
with two hands
they were gone
without a trace
taken by a force
with no face
i slept satisfied
at the very same spot
the following morrow
the ones that had laughed the loudest
arrived
and saw a clean slate
we told you they said
we told you they repeated
you were bound to lose
loose words like these
if you wanted them immortalized
you should have etched them
on the tips of the pyramids
that wouldn't have been right
not at all
i said
they would have blown away
from the tops
of the palaces of the resting Pharaohs
don't you see
i did give them eternity
for they came to me
while watching the sea
and their last wish was
within it to be
'take me into thy womb
for on these foreign shores
i feel forsaken'
the words had spelt
by being washed away
by being swept away
their last wish
their only wish
had, indeed, been met
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