A returning smile
Missed, perhaps imagined
In dreamtime blooms
Known to infant wisdom
Too rarely marked
In the churn of noonday.
And I, disconsolate
A foam-swept traveller
Rent by grief
Surrender to eternity
On a waxing tide.
Doom turns a secret:
In the depths, surcease.
Joylight shines
Out the back of lost causes.
© Stephanie Saulter 2006