Change

Drops of time
Fossils in memory
Smiles and tears ...
Grains of sand
Slip through her fingers

Waves recede ...
Nostalgia
Of the present
Drifting horizons
A path has been ordained.

Her feet fondle the damp earth
Comfort of the known.
A solitary tendril of her locks
sways...
To the whims of a blithe breeze.

Excitement
Shoots up her veins.
Magnetism
Of Unchartered waters.

Wide, wild and new
Winds from yonder join
A cacophonous ensemble
with Winds of the now
That would be 'back then'
Someday.

As
she listens to
Echoes from the ocean
Inside a conch.