Change moves like the rolling tide
Slow but unstoppable force
Pushing in or out to sea
Inexorably from the source
Moment’s glance can never tell
What direction is its course
Brilliant sky and blazing sun
Paint the ocean aqua green
Tempest winds and tall dark clouds
Turn it to a stormy scene
Sunset’s glowing reds and golds
Calm the waves by evening
Each molecule only turns
Within the wave round and round
But great ships are miles moved
Out to sea or run aground
Such subtle shifts with such great change
Nowhere else on earth are found
