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What do you think of the message contained in these lines?
Far deeper set than those in sand
which mark a path across a bay,
our dearest will not wash away.
As imprints left in dampened grains
soon fade when fickle tide returns
or when the wind sweeps them away.
On borrowed time, they can not last.
Compare them to the winter snow
which melts when warmth demands it so.
Yet footprints cast within our hearts,
cemented smooth with love and pain,
they are the ones that will remain.
You'll see them in another's smile
or in the tears they gently weep.
Who says we go without a trace,
we stay for those whose love runs deep.
5 Answers
- ?Lv 76 years agoFavourite answer
I read it as gracious
and I am grateful.
I have a friend who is one of some whom I miss a lot over years
and a few days ago, I read of the person`s death.
The surprise is that to me their wisdom, their kindness and wit
still is with their memory, safely here inside my heart..
and
here you wrote this totally on time.
It is humbly and beautifully thought and felt through..
is both sensitive and gentle
with outstandingly memorable metaphors...
and .... Thanks, I am pleased at its being so real to me.
Lapiz.
- ?Lv 76 years ago
I like the poem, but I would query the adjective 'fickle' for the tide. If there is one thing that is rock-solid reliable it is the movement of the tides.
- 6 years ago
Just lovely Cassie...your poems always have a heartbeat of their own! They almost read themselves to me...! And your message...so true. xxx