Every year now, I note the differences:
the changes in the stones,
the retreating car park and what
is new to the waves.
It is slight. You try to hide it by
presenting the same places and
lacing them with memories that
all correspond.
But you are changing.
You take new beatings, and I can't
help but wonder if we are alike.
The process of erosion has caught
us both, and year by year,
cliff by cliff, it's wearing us down.

It was always supposed to happen,
but what if you change too much?
What will happen when you change
irreparably, irreconcilably?
Even now you are only an
imaginary home, so defamiliarized
from the dream I demand.
I know you promised me nothing.
But I had a deal you didn't know about
and you've ceased to make me happy.
I can't help but be a little angry
with you for letting the
storm break you down.

But is it really you, or is it me
who has done the changing?
Is it not my eyes and my erosion?
Is it not the attrition and abrasion
and the long shore drift
that has welled up inside my own soul?
Is it you or I?
How can we know?

By Arcassin Burnham

....And we toss and we turn,
We live and we learn,
We pray then forgive,
We crash and we burn,
We consume all the flames then we all emerge,
We cry and we weep,
Have strength , we were weak,
The broken can all be fixed if they only just believe,
Produce and conceive,
Life blows through the trees,
To have to much of the birds and the bees and when in
Pain we've been given the notion to bleed,
We just scream.