Footprints In The Sand

Traces...We all leave traces

Dotted Lines Of Footprints

Dotted lines of footprints

Across The shell strewn strand

Fleeting proof and not so subtle hints

of passages of child and man

Tell-trail trace of Human presence

Impressed deep into the sand

Doomed to be no more than flimsy evidence

Soon erased  by Neptune’s hand

While not far away there also lay

More substantial prints of child and man

embossed in bed of ancient clay

Unfazed by Nature’s hand

Dotted lines of footprints

One fleeting...One made to last

So different and yet so similar since

They’ve both become the past

They both could be reminders

To Us of the Fleeting nature of time

And that we might be better minders

...Of the prints we leave behind...

Author's Note

Hopefully I'll leave a wee bit of a footprint