Did you ever look inside a sea
shell, and see the beauty, then
magicly hold it to your ear,
and how you can hear the
waves of distant sea?

Well I have no shell, you have
taken that, but I still recall the
the mystical sounds with
a very faint echo of each wave
crashing

So my love you keep our sea shell
you take it with you but remember
the tides will never change, nor will
the aroma of the salty air that filled
our hearts and touched a part of us
bonded by the distant sounds of
what was once upon a time when
a discoverd sea shell could hold
a lifetime of endless tides..........

Bonnie Collins

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-lifetime-of-endless-tides/