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Mists once dressed these dunes |
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Like silk upon her skin |
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But the ocean's bare today |
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And the tide is coming in |
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I watch a castle on the beach |
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A tower crumbling away |
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Mother Nature always wins |
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The games we children play |
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Rocks peek out from the foam |
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There seven seagulls stand |
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I slip the sandals off my feet |
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And drop them on the sand |
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As I walk dust clings and falls |
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To my dry and weary soles |
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The prints I leave upon the ground |
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Like word's upon a scroll |
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Walk into the waves |
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As the footprints fade away |
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Oceans leave no graves |
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All our legacies decay |
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The water's cold at dusk |
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I thought as I stepped into the tide |
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The sea does not want me here |
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What could she have to hide? |
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Our forebears looked to the horizon |
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But I called into the distance |
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And no deities would respond |
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Walk into the waves |
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As the footprints fade away |
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Oceans leave no graves |
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All our legacies decay |
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Perhaps if I tread further |
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Past where my feet engraved |
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My last mark upon the world |
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I'd find a face within the waves |