The sea

It’s been a long time since the sea moved at all

but ask anyone and they’d say it’s not true

because there are waves and currents and tides

that make us believe it’s all as before.

But always beneath what appears as the norm

there’s a world unseen and not ever known

where the sea lives a life just like the shore

still and silent and unchangeable.

There was a time when the sea thought to be

a moving force with no settled view

but it learnt over time that there’s no escape

from the essential truth of its very own soul.

And that truth so at odds with expectations

forces the sea to go through the motions

but there in the depths it writes its own story

and immerses itself fully therein.

Spare a thought but please don’t be sad

because it’s just life that frightens the sea

out from the truth into ways of the world

to toss and turn like it knows to do.

The sea is happy but, yes, it prays

for the world one day to change its ways!