The Dolphin by Stacey Quackenbush She calls to me from beyond out at the edge of the reef I can not join her there or at least this is my belief. I would walk out at low tide and stand on the edge I would talk to her there as the water lapped at the edge. As it rose higher I would retreat to the shore and there she was just beyond calling to me once more... Then one day I was late and I rushed out to the reef she was not waiting for me and I cried out my grief... I thought I had lost her and the fault was all mine I dived over the edge to forever end my lonely time... But as I touched the crystal surface I became what I longed to be my body shimmered and changed and I became a dolphin of the sea. And out in the distance I saw her Waiting beyond the reef and I finally joined the one I loved and left behind my life of grief. * * * |