What are these writings in the sand

these ancient runes I can not read?

Are they the story of my life?

Not as the pages of a book

but rather, to encourage me

to think about what might have been.

And having thought about those chances lost

to build, to guide, to cherish or to love.

May I now stand upon the shore of life once more,

to make a better writing in the sand?

 

 

David Garlick, Mazatlan, 1990