Wild Ocean.

You gave me no place to rest

To be

To acknowledge this

Your body was a thing of fury and fire

Like barbed wire

It cut into me

Leaving iron filings lodged

Beneath flesh

This made of my body

An inhospitable place

Where not a trace of tenderness

Or self respect could live

Instead all you saw of my natural self

Was an imperfect thing

In need of improving

Can I continue to shame and turn away

As you did

From the very being of deep soul

That needs my love

Wild Ocean

I will find a way to love your restless tides

To surrender my body

To be dragged under

Then surface and rise

I will learn to love the storms

Even as deep inside my being

A truer part of me

Aches for the glimpse of a golden sunrise

Let me find a way to no longer refuse this

Terrible and magnificent creation

In both dark and light

Help me to fathom the depths

To seek the dark pearl

And to hold fast to the wisdom that comes

With seeming confusion and madness

After all

All of this deep sadness

Makes sense

Only when I kneel

To love

And embrace it