MAKING OUR PEACE WITH THE OCEAN

When I entered this waking life
A dark lotus bloomed from the center
Carnival music filled the air
And all that I had was the water

You stood there at the edge of light
Making your peace with the sea
Your eyes were the earth of the forest floor
Growing beautiful branches of green

When you came to this waking life
The earth took its first breath of spring
I saw you wrapped up in the sun
The forest was never so green

Our paths, they came together
Like the branches of a tree
Two streams, two rivers, converging
At the edge of the green apple sea

Sometimes it seems the darkness will win
It's there when I sleep, in my deepest of dreams
I feel your hand reaching down to me
And I see the sun again

For when the ocean pulls me in
The sun, it stays away
But that is what you are, my love
The feeling that I might be saved

High tide sweeps the land away
From underneath our feet
We swim as the sun is melting away
Gold and blue, becoming green

I saw you at the edge of light
Making your peace with the sea
Your eyes were brown like the forest floor
Growing beautiful branches of green

Two lonely souls at day's last light
Making our peace with the ocean
I saw the sun come from your eyes
When I was down at the bottom.