the unexpected expected.

Playa de Santiago, La Gomera from Gypsy Tales

in the midst of the cool calm

something expected yet so unexpected came to pass

having watched the sea curve in and out 

....forever...

knowing the point of no return and every little break

sand polishing through rough edges

....in time....

only smoothness left

footprints in the sand

washed away by the changing tide

it was expected.

Fragile, gentle yet with a spine 

that springs right back

every time it is bent

and should the wind grab it;

it dances away with grace through the turmoil

like a feather in the eye of the storm.

Forever falling

mesmerized staring into the pink blue skies

walking along the sand

time is frozen

something so unexpected

something which had been expected yet forgotten.

the pain of thinking perhaps, maybe, but not (for me).

and yet here it was 

so surreal, it had to be real.