THE MAN AND HIS SEA

There was once a wayfarer
Who fell in love with the sea
To him she was rhythm
An unending reverie

He would stand upon a rock
Hugged by the fluid sand
And tales of a thousand waves
Would rise to kiss his hand

He loved her raging silence
He loved her every hue
He loved with such freedom
That the sea loved him too

Her love was ceaseless motion
A storm in every drop
Time locked in a surging wave
'twas space in her timeless deep

From the shores would come his summoning
The quiet of his eyes aflare
The nudge of his toes in her trembling sands
His breath that would kiss the air

That kiss would waft with the fusioned haste
Of the breeze and the blushing rays
And would sink weightless to her waiting depths
Like the touch of a loving gaze

One kiss to fill her being
To set her dark aglow
One kiss to set her heaving
With passions high and low

She would swirl through the sands
Of distant shores
And smother faraway lands
Yet, her roar would turn to a whisper
As she'd come to where he stands

He'd watch with drunken eyes
And she would curve into bashful waves
He would watch till the stars would gather
And romp in her moonlit caves

Not once had he touched her waters
And yet he knew her well
He'd smile with amused knowing
At her eager hesitant swell

One day the sea sighed
And darkened the graying sky
I know not this tale's beginning
But that day it's end was nigh

Neither joy nor sorrows embrace
Would bring this saga's end
To the ground of sedate thinking
That the heart wouldn't dare transcend

He stood 'pon yonder cliff
Like the silence of glorious death
Was it the wind that chiffed at the horizons
Or the force that was freed in his breath

His hands spread wide to hug the sky
He walk'd till the end of stone
The sheath of his soul fell like a dream
Of the night into which it was thrown

He rose as the spirit of higher skies
And flew like fantasy's wind
He merged with the sea, her waves and her tides
Like the colors of dawn's horizon

Blessed be the love of the man his sea
Blessed this eternal union
Blessed be this tale of nature's symphony
Where the sea and her man were one.