Deep ocean

If my body is this

Deep ocean

Formed in the wild seas

And chaotic tides

Of ancestral life

Then it is never apart from this

The ground of the tumultuous past

That gave rise to it

So as its undulating rhythms and swirls

Spin my being this way and that

Remind me to breathe deeply

As my being expands

To encompass it all

In compassion

Even as the wild tide of its

Tributaries flow on through

Pulled by

The magnetic gravity

Of evolutionary moons

And the seasonal circulation

Of a spiralling galaxy

Of stars

Revealing portals of light

Within the indigo dark

Of the celestial canopy