Purity in Hazel

Fear and wonder
Come to me! Stay away!
My body limply washed on your shore, the first time I did
Old timbers from that old ship, I held on to, to not drown
Creaky, splintered and brown
This ship of the past offered nothing but false safety
My fingers splinterd and hurt
My eyes reddened and burnt
The warmth of late summer of some years ago
You smiled at me from your inviting world
Flashing brown and green sunsets
Sheathed in gold and Mediterranean tones
Reminders of beautiful hazel days
spent alone in paradise, looking out to the sea
My burnt eyes saw clearer than ever before, as the world fell away
That August calamity....or epiphany? that brought me to you
Is it a calamity that I find an oasis amidst
The cruelty of the blue ocean?
Or epiphany! that I am but a stranger yet again
A younger stranger made to sleep at the ocean's edge
Grasping only sand, tasting only salt.
You that I gaze upon, always from
the precariousness of the shore
seem dare not to reveal all that could nourish
this starved wanderer
But the soft breathes that drift
the sighed murmurs of unknown pleasures
Reflect all of the vast infinite that I gaze upon
As I look up from my lowly station on your shore
To the vast infinite
Above....Epiphany!
Laughter, Play, Innocence, the mechanics of Love
Lay scattered above my head in a million points
The laughter, the play, the innocence that diverged
and dispersed within the secret hollows of your heart
Voices alien and transitory
Extinguished themselves in time.
I look at you now as I always have
As the beautiful, undiscovered country
Where Earth meets sky
And the voices that were alien to my hungry ear
Might be ours?, intertwined in time
Without fear
Only wonder..........