A Child's Dream

I saw a child playing by the sea,

Collecting pebbles, laughing with glee.

Clapping her hands welcoming the waves,

Running back and forth-

Screaming and free.....

Collecting the water in her hands

She waved at the clouds and

Made designs in the sand

Back and forth she counted her steps

Marked the distance with her footsteps.

The immeasurable sea, her measured steps.

The vast expanse measured with fingertips…

To her the horizon was the end of the sea.

The clouds followed her as she danced

The rainbow lit at her glance.

She wanted her friends -the sea and the sky

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To follow her home and live with her there.

The sky was there when she reached home

The sea followed her a little and went back to its own

She felt sad and cried for the sea.

In the evening there was thunder, lightning and rain

She clapped her hands, laughed and said

The sky and the sea are playing hide and seek

The sky I can almost see but the sea I have to find …..

Though I hear the child was lost

I couldn’t rescue it or me.

Years later I can still see 

 The sea and the sky beckoning me.

I hear the haunting melody of the sea and sky

And the call of the child waiting to be rescued by me….