The Child By The Sea

Today the story is about the child who lived by the sea. It is me.

There once was a little child who lived by the sea
she played very quietly all day by herself
she loved all those things close to her
she saw that the earth was warm and moist
the air was fresh and clean and filled with
the smell of salt and adventure
the seasons changed one after another
the seagulls cried and slid in the air
before a storm when the ocean whipped against
the grey sky
even the cold wetness of the rain
felt good to her
there was so much to see and feel

Each night she would climb up the old stairs
to sleep in her little bed beside the chimney
and dream of the whole wide world
out there in the darkness
the wind would tell her of
distant lands across the sea
perhaps of China or of Russia
their ships bobbing like toys on
the huge landscape of the earth
and the sea
and she would dream of her future
and what was going to be

sometimes life turns out not to be
those childish dreams
but they are never forgotten
or lost
in sadness.

©poem by Nora Flower written as a teenager

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