While Hope There Is This Verse Redoubt Might Stand Poem by Keith Shorrocks Johnson

I am building another sandcastle

As the waves make towards the pebbled shore -

Where soft-breaking spindrift rainbows dazzle

And the spray aches from kissing wrack the more.



Trusting that this sandy keep will stand fast

While petty tides assail its battlements -

Backflow currents undermining the past -

And any claim to last entitlements



To become a firm fortress of regard.

Hence the bastion keys I gift to you

While hope there is this verse redoubt might stand

In purity of love for what is true.



Perchance the walls are firm, the tide retreats,

And all offence of verse, your love defeats.