August 26, 2016

HARBOR   PULLS

Watching the water waves

against my hull - as I cross

across the harbor waters

to the other side of today....

I feel so many pulls 

from so many waves 

washing against me:

to hear a morning, “Hi!”;

to hear a “Hi!” back from you;

to recognize and be recognized;

to love and be loved in return;

to do something worthwhile today;

to taste what I’m eating;

to ask and then to pass the pepper;

to mean what I’m saying;

to have eye contact with some people;

to check the papers and the news;

to say a prayer;

to get home after the day;

to sit back and relax in the evening;

to say, “Good night! I love you.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2016

Painting on top:
Blue Water, Smoke and Ferry
by Gretchen Hancock,
one of her Vashon Fauntleroy Ferry
paintings