How do you take an ocean and hold it in your heart?
Won’t it leak, won’t it spill, won’t it leave you broken on the shore?
How do you keep an ocean locked away inside?
Won’t it drown you? Won’t it leave you surging in its depths?
How do you receive an ocean and not be able to give it back?
Won’t it sink you? Won’t it just break your heart?
This boat just floats and floats in this fathomless ocean—
no rudder, no rudder,
no bay here in which to drop anchor.
I lock this ocean away inside my shell,
its surging depths, a frightening display.
I lock this ocean away inside my shell—
tide’s pull would have me drowned.
I lock this ocean away inside my shell,
breathless within its fathomless measure.
I lock this ocean away inside my shell,
but you may hold me to your ear
and hear it still,
and hear it still.
Whispering, whispering—
(for who can contain an ocean?)
(for who can contain an ocean?)
(for who can contain an ocean?)
Dec 19, 2025
Dec 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM UTC
How do you take an ocean and hold it in your heart?
Won’t it leak, won’t it spill, won’t it leave you broken on the shore?
How do you keep an ocean locked away inside?
Won’t it drown you? Won’t it leave you surging in its depths?
How do you receive an ocean and not be able to give it back?
Won’t it sink you? Won’t it just break your heart?
This boat just floats and floats in this fathomless ocean—
no rudder, no rudder,
no bay here in which to drop anchor.
I lock this ocean away inside my shell,
its surging depths, a frightening display.
I lock this ocean away inside my shell—
tide’s pull would have me drowned.
I lock this ocean away inside my shell,
breathless within its fathomless measure.
I lock this ocean away inside my shell,
but you may hold me to your ear
and hear it still,
and hear it still.
Whispering, whispering—
(for who can contain an ocean?)
(for who can contain an ocean?)
(for who can contain an ocean?)
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