6 April 2025. Sunday morning
One day, on a morning of April sunshine,
she came.
she came with her three children; I saw her as never before.
She was a kid again, one of them.
She frolicked like a fawn, dipped her feet in the sand and waves.
They talked to the sea as if to a long lost friend,
and returned to the bed of sand,
virgin but for their footprints in the unruffled bed of sand, the sand
left behind by the ebbing tide.
She was a river flowing in flood.
The sea had that day read her mind and soul;
took away the gloom gathered over time,
and filled her pockets with pearls and shells,
a gift, a blessing that will echo over time.