Serenity

Along the coast I can sit and watch the tide roll in,
I can dream while the tide rolls out,
Often we need time in our own element,
As we simply wash away the drudgeries of life.

The crisp air fills my senses,
Washing away the staleness that exists,
The beauty can be seen in the clouds up above,
And it is like watching the angels at play in the sky.

The slow oceans breeze strokes my soul,
I can feel the soothing touch of love’s serenity,
Stability and softness begins to fill me,
And I know that life will once again be all it is.

We often have to send our thoughts
out across the hemisphere,
To simply rid us of the ongoing stress,
And there is no better place to release it,
The shoreline of life readily accepts it.

There is a peace that exists on my shoreline,
A peace that has been missing for some time,
Yet when we give it over to our spirit,
It defines itself.

We cannot allow ourselves
to be consumed by the past,
Nor can we be consumed by the lies it tells,
If we are to co-exist we often must,
Let sleeping dogs lie.

For no one is truly pleasured
by the secrets that exist,
Especially in a world,
that is so often, consumed by them.

A Lady Forever

Gale Hernandez
Winter 2004