Tag: waves

Making Waves

The waves crest
Far off the beach
Not with ferocity
But with energy
And intent

They rush onto the long
Shallow slope of sand
Which gradually saps their strength
Reduces their presence

Until they peter out before me
Weakened to ripples
Barely able to disturb the sand

The aqua sea
Rumbles up to me
Standing on the rocks
Broken like the waves
Which sundered them

Gnarled and frozen
In time
The crest which took
A million years
To break

Life comes at me in waves
Rolling in
Crashing down
Leaving me sputtering
Gasping

Though…
Every now and again
I catch one
A long glorious ride
Exhilaration
Exultation
Delightful experience
All the way to shore

When the waves come, I can

Ride them
Duck them
Vault them

Or I can stand firm
And let the ocean wash over me
Feel its power
Enjoy the surge of energy
As it flows all around me

Wash over me
Cleansing waves
Free me
From this detritus
Of life’s
Discontent

I stand, oblivious
In the pool of being
Casting ripples
I do not see

They spread
Interact with the ripples of others
Creating interference
Patterns of confusion

They rise to become waves
Washing over the lives of others
Sometimes pummeling them
Like breakers on the shore

The land rolls
Like waves across the sea
Like the grasses
In staccato breeze

And there go we
Like sailors
Over the rolling land
Into unknown worlds

I want to be washed pure
The way a rocky shoreline
Chases all the blue from the ocean
Leaving a roiling, effervescent whiteness