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.