
Tides
With persistence and patience
you coached your body
to the ebb and slow
to current of melancholy tide
often you went forth
and many a time you walked back
taking and giving
learning and teaching
until the final Acheron
with its undulating end
going one direction
and you know
this better not be the final
still you have
many things to see
many goals to pursue
still you have
many people to touch
joys and sorrows to live
then, there must be
another time
there must be
it must