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The Widening Sky


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The Widening Sky

 

by Edward Hirsch

 

I am so small walking on the beach

at night under the widening sky.

 

The wet sand quickens beneath my feet

and the waves thunder against the shore.

 

I am moving away from the boardwalk

with its colorful streamers of people

 

and the hotels with their blinking lights.

The wind sighs for hundreds of miles.

 

I am disappearing so far into the dark

I have vanished from sight.

 

I am a tiny seashell

that has secretly drifted ashore

 

and carries the sound of the ocean

surging through its body.

 

I am so small now no one can see me.

How can I be filled with such a vast love?

 

 

 

 

 

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(Ciao tutti, belle gente...ci vediamo tra poco.)

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