will the sea remember me?

does the sea remember the others who have walked along this beach?

does it remember the castles that children built with sand?

will it remember my thoughts as I glanced at its pale green waves,

pressing the memories close to the album in my mind,

like the castles the children built fated to fade with the tide?

is there a recorded history that shifts us from our form

as our footprints destined to go

back to sand again in time?

and will I, like those others who walked here, remain in another form

as part of the sea and its waves, the sand and pebbles and sky

and the sounds of the sea in my mind?

will the sea remember me?

(c) Copyright 2007 

Photograph by Gloria Gay, Copyright2008