expectations

[ellyssian]

expectations
By Everett A Warren
August 14, 1992

trailing glow
of the stars
hiding belief beyond
unseeing fantasies
unravel wishes
there to find
expectations

from behind a knowing smile
eyes of infancy strive
to discover
constructing a world
with knowledge claimed
first creates
expectations

glimpsed from afar
across the bay
lost with salt spray and the tide
and then again
singing to darkness
rushing under pebbled beach
you capture
expectations

guided by times long past
echoes of moonbeam
caress the heart
fields of fallen hopes
smothered leaves
under snow of winter
leave unmet
expectations

Copyright (c) 1992 Everett A Warren

Comments

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

I love the sound and rhythm of "lost with salt spray and the tide."

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

That's one of my all-time favorite lines... =)

That verse describes this place (particularly, that little bit of pebble beach just above Castle Rock).