Unbidden advice

Child on the sea shore
look not out the sea
For your eyes dazzle too often
as their gaze sweeps eternity.

Child on the sea shore
look not down
for your eyes see sadness
the sands of time sweep past the hollow, unseeing.

Child on the sea shore
look not back
the winds of change beckon, yet you linger
starring eyes looking over the horizon.

Listen not to the roar,
or the cry of the gulls,
or the song of the sea,
Only to yourself.