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the turning tide
some say the wind
gets up as the tide
turns and turn it
always does pulling
our lives like the shore
into and away from
the restless sea in
turn the slave of
the moon and the
universe our lives are
cut off by the rising
waters an energy that
can carry and contain
set on a journey or
scupper by inundation
the ebb too like the
flood can threaten as
well as bless the waves
and currents caress
careen and crush
taking and leaving
the truth of life
itself yet not just
a quotidian scale
but a tide of decades
and centuries setting
us afloat and adrift
beached and abandoned
riding life and facing
death all in the cycle
of sterile forces holding
us in our infinite
freedom as we soar
in the swirling eddies
of the spirit’s touch
we live and die always
at the same time
whatever the tide
© Neil Thompson 2026