Upon waking I realise I am not ready for The way the world Presses in on me From all sides Until I spy The spiral motion Of living things All around I feel safe At home Taking my shell Of security Everywhere With me Curl once more Adding up the numbers Wins multiply behind me Cast myself off From the shore merrily To begin another adventure Between the tides
A cornucopia of shell finds cast ashore at Taroona Tasmania
Generations carved from Giant's causeway Lava flow of war Igneous rock hardens Into a pathway across Vast waters separated by Continental drift Forming political shores Generations have traversed To find a new life by boat
Now, since my birth Family lines divided By technology Sounds beeps and static Gave way new intelligence New lightning fast Ways of doing Meanwhile, just being For those who can recall The differing bird calls Sounds peeps and trills Calling us out into The vast wide world To become new again
There is a natural state Of justice in this world Be it chance or fate Or mere accident I take my courage to say Love is everywhere Yet rare and precious too A short glimpse of it Builds bridges over ravines Calms storms within Eases rivers of tears
Can you see, hear, feel it Just from an image? Wind whipped landscape Scree toppled over snow gum Couples bending backwards Tree branch fingers of ice cling Catapult hail in passing Blistering howl of gale Need only a gentle touch A warm hand To bring back softly To land
The salty sea understands Vast unbounded loneliness Despite surrounded by Bountiful land Fringed with company Immersed in memories Exuding calmest thought Her placid shores Lap at my feet Spurring me on
Count the stars of heaven 