A Poem From The Sea Poem by Eric Von Rohr

It was on the day the dolphin came to me,
Calling me to join them, to play among those romancing waves.
They were beckoning me from those tidal pools
on that still summer day.

Swimming to meet their laughter as the waves
rolled up the beach, they taught me friendship and love,
things I thought were out of reach.

Glancing back at sand castles rising majestically from the
shore, I saw her collecting shells on the bottom of the
ocean's floor.

She called to me from this watery land, while christened
pearls of love she gently laid in my hands.
Under the sea and out of reality's reach, I awoke alone
upon the sands of the beach.

I stood, searching the surface of the ocean, I could see no more,
all was quiet and tame.
But it was love they had left for me, on the day the dolphin came