Ocean

A powerful, mighty ocean

One with waves that tumble and turn and twist

One that pulls your legs from you

One that drags you under

One that foams to the very end of the sand

A sea of words

It comes crashing in

It pulls me under

It jumbles and turns

It teaches a lesson that I can’t speak

It sings a song that I can’t dance to

It paints a picture that I can’t copy

It fills up my soul until I can hold no more

A wave of words

With emotions that burst from me

With joy that rushes to the surface

With pain that turns all inside me

With my dreams deep inside of it

With my life sitting at its surface

I have to share this ocean

This sea of words

This water that holds me in

These waves that I call life

But my hips don’t move like the waves do

And my hands can’t draw the ocean I see

And my tongue doesn’t know the language that flows inside

And my voice can’t sound like this sea

But when I sit alone

Just me and a pencil and paper

I can share this ocean

This sea of words

It spills out of me

One drop at a time

And for once

When I try to share this ocean that is me

I am not stuck

Like a lonely message in a bottle

Getting tossed in with the tide

For once I have found that

When I write

I’m finally free.