"Write Your Worries On The Sand"

"I walked slowly out on the beach.

 A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: 

WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE SAND.

   I let the paper blow away, reached down and picked up a fragment of shell.  

Kneeling there under the vault of the sky, I wrote several words, one above the other.

   Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. 

   The tide was coming in."

- Arthur Gordon