Seek not wisdom in long written words
Seek it not in libations and balms
Nor in objects and wealth
Nor in the soft embrace of carnal charms
Look to the turn and curve of driftwood
Fashioned by the watery tongue of time
Sense the grace and mystery of life
In every twist turn and line
Wisdom is eternal
It lies not in mans’ creations
Brutal and grand
But in the ageless beauty
Of this talisman in the sand
