By The Sea Side

Staying by the sea, now at sunset With the light slowly fading into greyness And the waters lying quiet A peace fills me as never before Dismal fears barred entry into the soul And mind freed of all disquietude. Through the soft whisper of waves A low sweet melody finds its way. Listening to the gentle sibilance of the sea, A new insight suddenly dawns on me None but we are to blame For all our angry bickerings. With all swirls and whirls underneath Is an abstruse calm in the deep In this continuum of flux Is a permanence - abiding and perpetual. Staying by the sea at sunset With its still waters glimmering in twilight And the stray clouds straggling in the sky, My soul undulates with the slow rhythm of waves And in me breaks a light, luminous and clear A glimpse of a radiance - ethereal!