This lovely and haunting poem says so much in a handful of words. It comes to us from Toby Stein, my friend and fellow scribe, who shared it with our Poetry Study Group:

SEA-SAND AND SORROW

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow:
What are brief? to-day and to-morrow:
What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth:
What are deep? the ocean and truth.

Christina Rossetti