Sea crash
Spray of salt
Rock tunnels and passageways
Carved by eons of eternity

Wave splash
Stony fault
Water widens pushes splays
Walls wrought in fraternity

Human hand against the sea
Untamable and free
Living  heaving  dancing wildly

Timeless power
Renders stone
Tumbles tower
Dissolves bone

Yet walls remain
Half-eaten and holed
Patterns revealed
Like corals below

Three thousand years
Against this pier
Ancient city standing strong
History shining beneath the waves
Amid the ocean’s ever song
Human order misbehaves
Answering the wild watery call
The eternal origin of all

A cove exposed by long low tide
Footprints laughter photographs
A fortress on the southern side
Ice-cream cones and concrete paths

Civilizations rise and fall
Ocean waves are evergreen
Olden days and modern sprawl
The cove lies sleeping in-between