The Ocean

I ask, who can beat the ocean 

With its white foam crests 

And poignant motion 

Through the fest 

Of sharks and depths 

Lord, across this deep 

This coral cave 

Towards mortality 

Into the caverns of the sea

This inevitable tide

That taketh me to death 

Swallowing the soul 

Unto and beyond 

The ocean 

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Plea, upon these knees 

For whom is this vengeance, 

These salt dripped waves

Surround this heavy heart 

Bumping into the unknown night 

By night a tempest 

By morning light a rage 

By sunset no less 

Than a monster 

That taketh thee 

Into its belly 

Is this the end, I ask

I plea, unto finality 

The ocean 

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I am lost in the ocean 

Lord save me, 

Protect me 

Rescue me from its rage 

I did not see the coming tide 

Yet you have thrown me 

This rope; fortuitously 

Not for death, but for life 

Not for hanging, but for release 

Not for dying, rather for mother 

Father and child 

So that they too may live 

To see the heart become as 

Still and redeeming as 

The ocean  

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Where is this wave upon which

I heave through the dark 

Caverns of the sea surround thee 

As stallions of tides 

Engulf thee,  

So that we may come to be

Understood in life as in death 

In grace towards passing 

Rising with the Angels 

Sleeping through broken dreams 

Living through the highest swells 

Breaking into the light, so that 

Our mortality is surrounded by 

The ocean

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As this ocean takes in the tides 

This soul must inevitably  subside