Origami Deep Sea Dives
Water on the rocks below.
No wind - even with the hammering rain.
Small corner of the world I know.
I feel it with my toe
and dive.
Sitting on the ocean floor I find another world alive.
Kneeling in my bright sea bed
I give myself to the currents flow,
Til by the ocean life I’m led.
*
I paddle with the current, and through
A corner-mast of luck -
I hit a happy chord.
Whenever I am bored
Or slightly twisted,
I waver and begin to list,
I fold my fingers in a wishful fist
And lightly call -
Let it be!
Let us have it all!
Not I, alone, not only me -
But all us three, us four…
Sailing in the mighty sea and
Listing with the wishful waves.
Whatever happens -
Let me be.
Let me be brave.
Horizon-bound and grinning,
I am ignorant and winning.
The ocean sounds -
Seak louder! -
With the open sea I’m swimming
In the scarlet-gold and green somehow,
Somewhere I have been somehow.
*
In fact - in all my eagerness to be -
I realised I was not more powerful than she.
In fact - I thought -
I was the sea.
I’m she.
I’m she.
Side by side along the beach,
With the wind and trees,
With the waves and
Birds migrating in a wishbone V.
I’m she -
I know -
I am the sea.