Fifty Years (Day 87)

 

Fifty years
            of cruel 

sun
   rain
      like tears 

failed
to bleach

the obstinate stain
on that tousled shore

A beach
of coral sand
     beyond 

            the distant 

rumbling breakers 

reach for    pick up

cool pale shell

spirals
      into
secret 

     depths

hold it
to your ear 

Listen 

to the resonant
     song
          welling up
from midnight

     long centuries
abound

     with swelling
summer waves

     the future
is the sound of
children's laughter

(c) 2017, by Hannah Six