Into the Sea

superstar intensity quiets the concubines,

the echoes have left, glitch reverb on hold

and through cracks the faint light shines

seeping and flowing, curving like translucent gold

geometric euphoria places itself on my eyelids

pasted to the back of each, shifting and sliding

at the end where crumbling marble statues sit

staring into space, quiet, listening, confiding

body language secrets to my open irises

the warmth washes over me like gentle tidal waves

calm yet giant, silent, hers, watching her highness

refilling the endless empty plots of flowered graves

at the end of the passage, i look down into the sea

the ocean breeze, faint caressing me, soft and salty

like autumn leaves i leap, falling from the tops of trees

into the water, powerful and captivating when the ground was faulty

and i sink into coral reef forests and twisting kelp meadows

colorful fish dancing through the water like tropical birds

and i am at a home with no room for lands topical nonsense

lying on my back, staring at the sun through the surf

reaching towards the sky like blue plains covered with tents

voices of the shipwrecked echoing all around me

but in ignorance bliss, in warm skin, truly happy