The Sea Part 2

The Sea
Part II

And so the hopeful child returned,
Seeking the open arms of Mother Sea.
Full of yearning for rest and peace,
Needing comfort she could not describe.

Eyes wide with hope at the new day, 
She felt the breeze of her Mother’s loving breath
Gently caressing her brow as if
To renew the soul with her healing touch.

Dim visions of dawn-lit gulls
Scallop-cut the air with wings of grace
While ripple washed jewels gleamed
And shifted beneath her feet.

Dolphin arcs teased her
With waves of welcome
Like cousins at a reunion
Who had left all care at home.

Spring’s grace-filled hope
For healing budded anew
Heedless of the Fall to come,
As if the leaf would never die.

But all she knew was of the air
And of the struggling earth
That bounded the soothing murmur
Of her Mother’s loving lullaby.

Mother Sea embraced her but a while,
Held the child’s hand to her heart
Hoping the rhythm of her love
Would ease the anxious soul.

For the doubting restless child,
The truth she sought waited not
Beneath or atop the waves,
But in the world she now must face.

Life within her waited, poised
To burst forth on a flood of
Liberating inner light and peace
And freedom from yesterday’s trials.

And the last wave breaking across her feet
Was her Mother’s gift of boundless love
For this part of her, this precious girl-child,
Whose tears she also cried.


November 2004