on the Ocean's edge

Written as a reflection on his life's experiences in arc related to his two periods living in California, one an exile from his children wrought by the whole Panther madness, the other the keeping of a promise to she who proved ultimately to be a faithless lover, the poet examined the feel, the emotional texture, of his life.

on the Ocean's edge

as the sundrops slide
into the whiting glare of the Pacific
I am lost
in my reveries.
my soul's disease
that has cost
everything but hope, and the epic
has not yet run to hide
from the legions yet on the flow.
the gathering hell is holding,
that I may not live to see,
but must brace for.
as I pace the floor
and wait for a moment's key
I should be already holding,
considering all I already know.


William F. DeVault.all rights reserved.