RANDOM HANDSHAKES - ALI H. RADDAOUI

Monday, April 4, 2011

ASH-BOUND

Sand in my hourglass
Slowly seeps down
At eventide.
The sea is slowly
Turning its hourglass
Upside down.
I twist my hourglass
By the isthmus
And submit the sand
To the crematory of the soul
And blow its ashes
Into the Sea.