Cora-E Barras

The Ebb-Tide

She floats on an ebb-tide
  in the slipstream of life
  and all her ambitions
 are but transient dreams,
  which mark the divide
  between nature and nurture
  and downstream,
 the essence of summer,
  always just out of reach,
  lies waiting.
 
 With the turn of the tide
 she will leave behind
 the wistful sighs
 and the sorrowful eyes
 to embrace once more
 that adventure called Life
 where, upstream
 lies strength and beauty
 and , in the distance,
 Home.