I KNOW YOU

You are youth

You are young

Maybe 19 or 21

I know you by

How you stand there

On the beach

Oblivious to anyone

Staring out to the sea

It is at that moment

When your life dreams

Are at the edge of your tongue

Ready to birth

Ready to be freed

From your heart

All is possible

As you see

And feel the tears

Of the joy

Of the moment

No one knows

Why the tears

But only you and me

I KNOW YOU

Because when you stepped

Onto that Beach

Your foot passed

Childhood and

Let you see

All the possibilities

And all that won’t be

Only here the few come

And the magic never leaves

I KNOW YOU

Because I too

Have stood on this beach

And made dreams

That I didn’t keep

And other dreams

Just as good

Became my reality

You see,

I am that weathered

Man sitting under the tree

At the foot of the street

Behind you

The years have been kind to me

I come here too to step

Onto the Beach when you

Leave

I made that promise

When I was here

And my tears of

Joy and youth were upon me

But now my journey

Is behind me

I pass from

Manhood into eternity

What I see

When I stand now

Is me and only the sea

As I stand alone again

On the Beach

At Carmel By The Sea

I KNOW YOU