Why Beaches?

Used to wonder
what’s so wonderful
about the beach…

Till I realised
it is the meeting point
of many things…

Not just surfboards,
Not just volleyballs,
Not just deck chairs…

Of the vast sky,
Of the vast sea,
Of the vast land…

Of calm of waves,
Of turmoil at times,
Of paradoxes of life…

Of sinking suns,
Of rising moons,
Of cycles of nature…

Of impermanence of tides,
Of disappointment of dissolving castles,
Of unsubtantiality of it all…

Of the peace from knowing this,
Of the insight from seeing this,
Of the bliss behind it all.