Melinda Smith #9 Beach Lullaby

Moon over North Narooma, Christmas night, 2015

Beach Lullaby

when the night draws his great dark sails across the sky
     you should be in bed
                                    and so should I

when the stars spread their glowing grains of sand across the sky
     you should be in bed
                                    and so should I

when the breeze blows her salt sea breath across the sky
     you should be in bed
                                    and so should I

when the moon bobs her weathered white boat across the sky
     you should be asleep
                                    and so should I

© Melinda Smith 2016
(reworked from a 2007 draft, never published)