In this episode, Linda J Wolff recites the poem “Beyond the Water’s Edge.” In this poem, her expression is of loss, then reflection, and acceptance.
I will look beyond the water's edge.
Recorded by Linda J Wolff/Feeling Alive Coaching
*Beyond the Water's Edge*
Beyond that pier, where the ocean ripples
across the cloudy remnants of the morning,
I look for you, not where you once stood,
where the planks of rotting wood are weathered
by time and people’s footprints.
I hear you in the sea birds screams
I hear you in the laughter of the beachfront people
I feel you in the dampness of fall
and this woman rivets back to yesterday,
I don’t bring tears today like the raindrops
saturated with heaviness... I stand here and smile.
I was never given the opportunity to
show you, true love— see, I didn’t care about your
perfectness, it was your scars and brokenness that
makes you perfect, those little imperfections.
I was never given the opportunity to
show you how touch with tenderness is like
a bandage that protects an open wound, cause
I would have...
I was never given the opportunity to
lie beside you and hear the song in your
heartbeats, to capture the wholeness from the
tussles of your hair to the tips of your toes—
to fight back sleep with pillow talk, cause if I
closed my eyes you wouldn’t be there if I woke.
R and B music on iTunes makes my soul flutter—
a distant memory of you, it seems that these places are
as close as I will be to you.
Like, what I am supposed to feel with your presence,
your hand in mine, we stand here
staring into the dark graying sky, yet,
inside the sun has risen with beautiful light.
and heavenly song.