i knew i couldn’t save myself
so leapt into the unrelenting sea
resigned to death
i was well-pleased never to return
but who can speak
of the vastness of a sea
its unknown places
deep within darkness
your shadow passed
in silence
your measureless form
hidden in many waters
i was drowning and swallowed by waves
when you were called to take me in
and bear me down
to the bottom of the world
there
where there was no light
no hope
only one voice speaking
those unstirred waters
no warmth nor subsistence for you
yet you kept me
all the given days
as if your whole being meant nothing to you
until those words were spoken
and then in silence you ascended
through some uncharted way
to birth me on the blinding shore
of a new and sunlit land.
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