I am so small walking on the beach
at night under the widening sky.
The wet sand quickens beneath my feet
and the waves thunder against the shore.
I am moving away from the boardwalk
with its colorful streamers of people
and the hotels with their blinking lights.
The wind sighs for hundreds of miles.
I am disappearing so far into the dark
I have vanished from sight.
I am a tiny seashell
that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body.
I am so small now no one can see me.
How can I be filled with such a vast love?
The Widening Sky
Edward Hirsch
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Poem topics: away, beach, dark, night, ocean, people, sky, wind, shore, thunder, walking, body, beneath, sound, love, I love you, small, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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