Beach Message...

Beach Message 33
by William Torphy

So when
the sun
runs completely
through your body
and there is left
nothing but laughter
and when the sky
has become
your pleasure-dome
and there is nothing
but infinity of blueness.
So when this water
has washed your mind
completely clean
and the ocean
becomes your Mother
and when the hot sand
turns a pallet
under your soul
a warm embrace
of earth and ground.
Then when the air
surrounds your being
and the atmosphere
of allness echoes within
then do you know
why you came here
to love, feel, marvel
fold within yourself
your own truest nature.
-Mazatlan

from Love Never Always