Found on the Beach

I found a shell on the beach today
It was beautiful and I kept it for the length of the walk
It was white and orange
On one side it had striations as if it were a ladder
On the other it was pure white

It was small and oblong
Like a road rising up to meet you
It was thick and had weight
Yet you could pick it up like a feather
And I threw it into the Ocean

Before I could make a necklace of it for you.
Set adrift on the Ocean it might someday find a home
A safe place to lodge itself and dream of you.
Perhaps adventure is its lot, to drift beneath the waves

Like a submarine gliding through the vast depths.