Her hair laps at her neck as it gently bounces in the breeze. She
smiles the shine touches her eyes and she pulls back her hair from
her face. Her hips move with the grace of nature and she sways
majestically, mesmerizing me with her awe and tranquility. I wonder what
will become of her. I watch closely as she stops at the place the beach
meets the sand and she stares into the ocean. I am sitting here alone
looking into the nothingness of the horizon. Her eyes are a clear brown
mixed with specks of green and they glimmer with the reflection of the
sun. Her skin is tanned and her dress is long. There is just the two of
us and the only sounds are of the ocean waves sweetly kissing the shore
and the seagulls shriek and moan. She stops and turns around. She faces
me and looks down at me and my brown towel. 'Hello' she says in a quiet
tone seductively sweet which almost purrs with femininity and
vivaciousness. I smile and look deep into her eyes. I say nothing as I
have nothing to say. I wonder what she wants and if she wants something I
am sure that she will say more. She notices that I do not reply and in
response she walks over and stands over me with a hint of curiosity and
speaks again 'why are you here alone?' she asks. 'We enter this world
alone, is it that unfitting that I experience this world in the same
fashion?' I pause and look at her quietly 'I have come here to ponder on
the essence of life and meditate on that'.
'Well what is so important that you wish to meditate upon?' she inquires.
'Death
and love, as what else really matters?' I reply. She looks at me again
this time with caution. Who the hell is this guy she must think? Some
crazy lone bastard on the shore, looking at the horizon pretending to be
a Buddhist monk.
I say quietly 'Love is being
fearless to swim this ocean and having faith that you will make it to
the other side. If you cannot surrender yourself to the vastness of the
sea, then your soul will remain safe and calm although unsatisfied and
lonely. The sea can destroy us yes, but without the courage to battle
with the universe will will remain lonely and experience nothing'.
'She
looks at me intently her beautiful eyes pierce into my very heart. In
her eyes I read love pain and hope. There is not a trace of fear. She
smiles again and begins to walk away from me following the shore line of
the beach. But as she goes she says 'perhaps.' and pauses 'but for now I
think I will keep on walking' and she does. She walks and becomes a
speck into the distance and eventually fades into nothingness. I smile
and continue to meditate.
