Unknown Territory

It is our last night on the beach

tomorrow we will pack up and

return to the real world and you,

you will head to college,

unknown territory.

You are pensive as we walk

,

soaking up the sights and sounds of

this place you love so well,

this refuge for weary hearts

.

We follow the shoreline, barefooted,

walking in companionable silence

.

Until we run out of beach and are

forced to turn back

.

You link your arm in mine

.

Something you haven't done in a while,

and pull me into a brief hug.

'love you mom' you whisper

and then you give an embarrassed laugh

and turn to run back across the beach

kicking up spray and whooping madly as you go.

I watch you until you are but a speck

lit up by a single strand of sunlight

that cuts through the gathering clouds.

The first evidence of rain is enough

to send me after you, my pace more sedate

but my heart whooping just as madly.

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~ what an exquisite piece of heart and soul and love and poetry... i love the following lines a lot...

"We follow the shoreline, barefooted,

walking in companionable silence
.
Until we run out of beach and are

forced to turn back
.
You link your arm in mine
.
Something you haven't done in a while,

and pull me into a brief hug.

'love you mom' you whisper"

~ and i love these lines and images too...

"I watch you until you are but a speck

lit up by a single strand of sunlight

that cuts through the gathering clouds.

The first evidence of rain is enough

to send me after you, my pace more sedate

but my heart whooping just as madly."

~ this piece is so overwhelming... and celebrates the connection between mum and child as well as a sense of freedom so beautifully... ~ i can't help but wish that my mum wrote poetry for me... i would be ecstatic if she did... (but i guess she is writing for me in her own way these days and i should be thankful :P)... ~ and i think i'll be writing more for my nephew... a big, big thank you for this post too... :)