My Heart

 

On western shores so far away

My Dad walked on the beach alone

And found a gleaming heart-shaped stone.

He bent to take it from the sand

And gently held it in his hand.

My Dad then sent this heart to me

My treasure for eternity.

With western shores so far away

I wish that time and space could bend

And I would see his face again.

2018

(from the book Discoveries In The Dark by Doris Potter)

© Doris Potter