images in my mind

your beauty,
as pure as the sand on the shore.
you are,
as vast as the ocean; as much as sand.

just like that,
it's beyond the grasp of my palm.
everything slips through,
and there goes you.

what's left are the little bits of sand on my hand
or the salt of the sea water between my fingers.
the rest of it,
they've returned to where they belong.

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and then there i was,
standing on the sand, looking out into the ocean.
i think of the place where i spent my youth.
somewhere so far, a place where my spirit finds rest.

there, i dream of it every night.
wondering which star it might be on.
the universe so vast,
the stars - countless...