Wanting Waves

Come with me, said the waves to the sand.

Let me engulf your nothingness into my wholeness

Pull you away from your arid destruction

Let my movement be your course of action

Find out who you are through my clear waters

I’ll ride your edge from crest to crevice, replied the sand to the wave.

Explore your shape, your ebb and flow.

Enjoy your surface and stay near my shore

Let me know the truth of our connection without being swept away.

But there is so much more of me to know! cried the waves to the sand.

I gently collect you, hold you, caress you and leave you each day

Is there nothing of you that desires to see beyond our turquoise connection?

To fully observe our reflection far past the horizon, much deeper than light

And how can I know you? asked the sand to the waves.

You lift me to drag and drop me as you carry away

You want depth, communion and knowing

Content and containment are one in the same

But to fall into you will break me apart

I can never be whole if I fold into you

But don’t you know, dear sand that you are already there? demanded the waves.

Spread across my depths, feeding the parts of me that hunger

Anchoring and giving life to a world beyond what you know

Do you not see you have already laid your claim across all that I am?

Then let that be enough for today, sighed the sand.

And come take a bit more from me tomorrow

For I must rest upon the shore

Pieces of a whole, awaiting your call