the shore is losing the tide
tide and tide again
but each day the tide will come
to carry more shore away
the land is losing the shore
time and time again
but each day the land will shift
more land becomes the shore
the land is losing the land
loss and loss again
but what happens come the tide
the land can give no more?
a land that has no more
has no more land to lose
reunited with itself
as distant tropic shore