Poems:      Embrace 2 Image by Diane Nadeau Embrace 2 Humanity shifted with the sands that day But I was spared the news for a few hours By the grace of your smiles The tide rolled as everything changed Your eyes so radiant  So radiant While far away terror reigned We were not to know for so short  But so precious a time And then we left the beach     October 2001     Poem index My Home Page