The SEA

The Sea

The reluctant sea hides under a blanket of fog

Holding the Air prisoner, teasing the birds in the trees.

Still as the stars in the distance

The volcano simmers underneath the frozen visage

Forever moving forever still

Singing the song of human existence and annihilation

Captive within the walls

In the plenitude of home

And magnitude of quotidian tasks

I imitate the rhythm of the sea

Forever moving forever still

Echoing the song of human existence

My yearning amuses the sea.

It whispers…

The beauty of all that lives

Is in its brevity

Eternity is the mirage of the fools

The wheel must role

The water must flow

Forever changing, ending, beginning

Is the human condition