My Waves Poem by Melanie Walendowsky Baker

Trying to find answers
when questions are lost.
The circles continue
my life has been paused.

I cry with the waves -
appropriate, it seems.
The tide's coming near
and with heartache it teems.

So lost in my world
I'm not sure I have.
The ocean placates me
- it's all that I've had.

So I cry into the sand,
my bed full of woes.
It unites with the waves
to bury my sorrows;

so my tears won't be shed
when they are not near,
the comfort they give me
is all that is here.

I travel the waves,
I follow the tides,
to where I don't know,
but in them I confide;

all that I've lost
and have tried to forget,
all that is missing,
and all who have left.

For who can abide
these tears in the sand?
When answers aren't found
who will understand?

(Itajaí,20 June,2009)