slipping away
She knew it was coming. She tried to prepare herself for it to come like it had come before. The delicate creation had so much love and time invested in it. She knew it would come, and just as she knew she was helpless to stop the waves, so to was she helpless to stop the tears. She sat and helplessly watched as the incoming tide rose up the beach approaching her precious castle made of sand. The waves swallowed what she had worked so hard to create, and just like that it slipped away into the sea. She knows there will be more castles, some better, some not as good, all of them special in their own way. She watches uncontrollable events steal a piece of her soul, and she cries, then she says 'goodbye'... Looking out to the blue green sea, she's reminded of the consistency of change in her life. The warm wind off the water dries her tears as she turns away from the place where her joy had once been. Down the beach is the promise of another day.