Nature of the beach

Like the waves
Wishes, and dreams, and focus fancies
Are coming toward relentlessly
One after another
It is the nature of the beach

The question is not whether they are washing,
wooshing
their way toward me

It is if I will dip in my toes, dive under or run backward
to fall onto the desert of the sand so often favored.

-EMM 1/3/2021