Portrait of a Woman by the Sea

Green eyes::
Footprints in the sand.
Silence that encompasses the soul.

Cloudless skies a reflection
of the calm blue sea
Seal cries fall on deaf ears.

She sees me
and I fear.

Motionless, she stands-
Hair billowing in the wind.
Brown, the colour of the earth.

Woman of mud,
seaspray,
grass:

A rare angel walking
barefoot on the beach.

'Come to me,' cries she;
her voice a reflection
of painful isolation.

Above, the sky shatters
and stars drop to the sea.

~Vicki Somers
29 August, 2001