chagall backdrop

You’ll need a shawl on the beach tonight
as well as a worthy captain

waning moons break hearts
while those that wax bring nothing
but hope

we grow larger each step
in surf too warm
in light too bright
to be real

we bring
so much of our self
to it

the world doesn’t
work this way

or maybe
it just works so

footsteps
in relief

well before washing
away

© Chagall, 2013