For a while

A short poem

For a while, I watch the sun rise once more,
offering us blessings of a new dawn.

There isn’t a whiff of wind on the shore,
only music from the soft waves licking the small pebbles.

I watch the sky change slowly from the beach,
the colours transmuting the clouds above.

For a while, I forget all that is around me
the highway of my mind is still,
every thought has settled to rest as the new day begins.

I notice every little pebble in front of me,
each one shaved smooth by time and currents,
soft as the skin of a newborn.

For a while, I wonder why it all matters,
how none of it truly does, in the end.

What if this is my happiness?
I’m sure there are people who would disapprove,
for a life without society seems pointless to them.

Yet I do not care for sophistication,
I only search for peace and contentment

For a while, I ponder is this the colour of our souls?
The hues refracting from the sun, parted by dust and time.

Or are they the colour of the ocean?
A blue that darkens with depth, the more one’s soul has lived.
My imagination roams free as I stare.

For a while, I contemplate the sun above the clouds,
its colour placated, the scattering of wavelengths filtered.

We may cry for what has and hasn’t been,
but in this moment, the past does not exist.

Isn’t it all so beautiful?