THE ISLAND

When I return

To the island

Where I was born

I reunite with the ocean

The force of the sea

Steadies my feet

My mind, made still

By its motion

I walk on the edge

Where the land meets the sea

I drift from my head

As I study my feet

I breath in the sky

And the song of the gulls

I sink down through the sand

As the earth rises up

I draw my name in the sand

As I sing in soft tongues

I ask the wise ocean

Of what is to come

It speaks to me

At night in my dreams

I reunite with the island

In the arms of deep sleep.