The Transcendant Tide.
The current sweeps us
past laugh and splash
of free running water,
falls that shout and plunge,
red poppy fields,
green pendant droop of willows,
curving bends, lazy meander
to finally, in the distance,
the still dark sea.
Remember, long ago,
before the river grew mighty,
how in the morning song-birds
flitted through the sparkling air.
Somehow, wonderfully,
you floated by,
I reached out, felt your hand
and it closed on mine.
Why? The body’s desire?
The mind’s fear of loneliness?
A beauty of need,
to love and be loved?
Who can tell, but every day
sunlight caressed the waves
and every night the current filled
with silken sheen from moon and star.
So what if we are still swept
towards the rumbling confluence
where river protests to meet sea.
A lifetime ago I surrendered to you
and your tide consumed me,
took me way out beyond
sheltered cove or stagnant stillness,
deep, deep into a trackless wonder,
into mighty waves of beauty and joy,
deep troughs of compassion
for heartache and pain,
a pure, sublime tide far beyond self.
There I have dwelt.
There, in wonder and surrender,
I willingly sink and drown.
First published at Peacock Journal
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