Sand Castles
In the ocean’s ebb and flow
Waves break upon the beach;
Up above the sea gulls soar,
Competing each with each,
For the food that’s washed ashore,
And stranded on that beach.
I watch them fight and frolic,
Above the ever-shifting sand,
Urged by primal hunger
As are all upon the land.
How many urges drive us,
Like gluttony, greed and lust,
To betray our restless natures,
Before we turn to dust?
Urge and urge and urge again,
Waves break upon the land,
Reducing every castle there
To nothing but damp sand.
[For those of you like patterns, here is a bit of Wikipedia (maybe) information that might delight you as it delights me. After all patterns abound; they are in the Dance as the Dance is the Divine and absolute pattern. Probably.]
“The Fibonacci sequence is a set of integers (the Fibonacci numbers) that starts with a zero, followed by a one, then by another one, and then by a series of steadily increasing numbers. The sequence follows the rule that each number is equal to the sum of the preceding two numbers. The Fibonacci sequence begins with the following 14 integers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233... Each number, starting with the third, adheres to the prescribed formula. For example, the seventh number, 8, is preceded by 3 and 5, which add up to 8.”
