The Turquoise Sea

The Turquoise Sea

I dreamed a treasure’s hiding place
Was like the snow-white strand
Between a jeweled turquoise sea
And some exotic land,

And in my dream the sea had gone
A billion years ago,
But still I’d find the treasure’s lair,
For, looking, I would know

That some things tell of vanished seas
And some of vanished land,
And finding both, I’d look between
And find the hidden strand,

And in the strand a treasure-trove
— the vision promised me —
But morning’s finger touched the dream
That held the vanished sea,

And suddenly Space changed to Time
And In-between to Now,
And there I found the treasured strand,
The likeness showed me how.