Find that sweet spot, between awareness and inaction
Out to find me?
search by the sea
breathe the brine seasoned air
bathe in the great soundless sound
watch the empire of the repeating sea
which comes and goes for unknown reasons
not for a day or for a season
but forever
Out to find me?
search by the sea
you’ll find me under cloud nine
gazing seaward for long slippery moments
I romanticize my inability to focus
but the sea is a great thief of hours
its pitches keeping time
to some gravitational clock.
There - see him?
the tall sun-burned man
he is my playfellow
- how, is sealed between us -
but his tristful visage quickens my heart
- he has exceeded all promise
great loves have died
great seas have dried
the threatening is most sea-like
astringent, overwhelming
promising griefs unspeakable
without him I am unrooted
and utterly unfixable
Out to find me?
search by the sea
that wide and universal theatre
is the potent scene we play in -
he is with me - we two are joined
with the stubbornness of fortune
- we were wrought by nature -
and you cannot fight a natural sea
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Songs for this:
please please please let me get what i want by She & Him
Hearts working overtime by Born At Midnite
Pacific Ave by Pearl & The Oysters