That Sand In Your Shoe Poem by Mark Heathcote

That sand in your shoe
Once was a mountain made of mud?
Once held a pearl in an ocean shell
Once had jagged edges
Now made minutely, smooth…
Once sang of life
Like a bog myrtle tree
But now it's you, but now it's me
That petrified life, that-
Once again, has returned to the sea
That you simply shook, from your sandal shoe.


II

That sand in your shoe
Was once a mountain made of quarts?
Was once a pearl in an Indian Ocean shell?
And had once a time jagged edges serrate
But now it's been made minutely, smooth.

It also once a long time hence sang of life
Like a bog myrtle tree
But now it's with you, now it's me,
That petrified life, that-
Once again returns to the sea…
That you simply shook, from your sandal shoe.