Family Reunion

With the dock as my doorstep,
I welcome them into my abode.
Each one briefly stops long enough to bow in greeting
before resuming their endless game of tag,
slapping their neighbor before
rushing toward the shore
like children to uncles at Christmas;
throwing themselves about the land
as if it were their parent's legs.
Taking heed of my presence,
the sea lifts its thousand hands in a Wave.
I beckon for her to come join;
the trees have their arms spread
wide as the wind
tugs childlike at their coats.
The sea stretches until her fingers brush the hem of earth's green skirt...
only to fall back down.
She gathers herself for another rush;
I look to the sun...for all it's glory, but a light:
the sea, its crystal chandelier.
I jump and
I crash
into the arms of a lover who accepts all of me
and holds me more lightly than the wind who bears each bird aloft.
I am floating in the womb.
I am reborn
dripping with diamonds
mined from the soul of the earth.