TILL EARTH BECOMES SEA
             by Sarah Elizabeth Hume


   You have strayed from my shores
   like a ship lost at sea
   and for you I will wait
   where the sun meets the earth
   in cloaks of pink and gold,
   with hair the scent of vanilla fields
   so that you will remember me.
   
   I shall be there
   until all earth turns to salted sea
   and you are swept by my side.

   My love,
   for thee I shall always wait
   until land is no more
   and we are clothed in water and sky.