The Wave

you were a signature written in sand

Photo: © David Whyte

THE WAVE
   for John O'Donohue


You arrived as a ripple of change emanating
from an original, unstoppable,
memory, a then made now,
entirely yourself, found now in the world,
now as creator of that world,
you were a signature written in sand
taken by the ocean and scattered
to another wave form, your disappearance
only made more bea…