THE TIDES OF TIME

The world is made of sand and sea
Like the grains along a beach .
The waters wash each grain away
When the tides of time shall leach .

So do not fret you left no mark
When upon those grains of sand .
For no one really changes them
As they lie upon the land .

The only thing that may be said
Of your time , or you , or me ;
Is that we watched each tide come in
And we did so happily .


Greenwolfe 1962