The shore and the wave Breaking in measured thunder The minnows of this ichthyological metaphor' Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot The echoing dunes, That kind of intoxicating insanity Other people dreaming outside of the lines Walking into my life Needing someone to love them beyond reason I breathed all of them in so deeply Fascinated by touching eternity The ocean's pulse The voices of tides Navigating the shores of the heart Night's black spell on darkness Caught the light, the air, the wind Running down the edges As we are crying the oceans, in our tears I Am.....