I saw it all unfold

Slowly turning like embers burning

As a tenacious tide crystalized granite

Revealing a diamond image

That could be silted through my toes.

With each imprint in the sand a mold was cast

it’s way back to the water charging in the ebb

Sinking to the cool depths

In the wind of hurricane gales

The heat of the summer and the choppy white

That lulls above the wakes

Slowly the imprint changes and changes

In the shell of the ocean deep

only to be returned back to the beach-head

And on his shoreline did I see the dawn break

Into twilight as a pearl revealed

All I cannot explain in God’s great design

And nothing more beautiful

Had I seen ever done

When a boy became a man

As I witnessed with my son