Sand Dollar

Grains of pearled sand,
sift and fall between delicate fingers,
spreading across the earth's thick floor
its beauty abandoning my hand.

The sound of rushing ocean waves
yet it looks so... calm,
crushed shells around my feet
telltale of secret qualms.

A rogue tide presses past my legs
dipping back into the depths again-
revealing a broken sand dollar
and three doves freed of skeleton beds.

Bending to touch one of their heads
a surge of light sparked, and spread
kissed by the ocean's breeze 
all luminosity came shimmering, into me.

My mind sighed, behind wild doe eyes
lifting the peculiar frost-bitten bird
once in my palm it trembled and grew
larger than Sampson, and shed his disguise

Revealing himself in human body, gifted,
with two colossal wings spread wide, each feather drifted.
Shielding me from a deadly blaze of the sun,
his pale eyes peered into my mind, but he said none.
I felt his thoughts lingering in the corners of my soul
finding things of secret, only he could know.

   

Reviews

[Steve]

Sweet, thoughtful, and romantic. This is dreAmlike.

[Aramey]

Thank you Steve. That's exactly what I was going for :)