John Lentini

Rhythm of Life

 

How gentle be your touch

How gracefully spreadeth thou thine fingers

      caressing so softly thine confines
Seems to me that thou seeketh not escape

      preferring and heeding the returning ebb

Mourneth not I your fleeting stroke

      for your sister embraces me next

In thy rhythm of life we are united

      caressing in rhythm my beating heart

      returning to thine source as doth sigh mine lungs

In thou reflecteth thine setting light

      in me reflecteth the same

To thou reacheth I to meet your touch

      together we have changed the world

Believeth not I that ’twas your turn and now

      ’tis mine

For together our efforts are compounded

 

And so I shall sigh, beat on my heart

      with thoughts of you forever

And so shall you stroke the shore

      retaining my memories from view