THE OCEAN AT NIGHT
My dearest, darkest friend
I've come to your shores
To speak with you again
It's been so long
Since you last knew me
I have gone to the mountains
Far away from the sea
It was you that I came from
It was by you, that I grew
From the window
Of the old white house
I said goodbye to you
I heard you at night
Your pulse hitting the shore
You had pull in the darkness
Your mood was more raw
You waited for me
Beyond the flickering street
In the pale neon glow
In the warm buzzing heat
You held my fear
I felt your pull
I knew you in the day
But at night, not at all
In the moonlight
You scattered
And a living creature
Needs time alone
I thought of you waiting
How you could swallow me whole
I held power
In the arms of your water
I bled my heart out
Into the sea
Land lacked your rhythm
Your chaotic freedom
The tension was invisible
Impossible to see
It moved in all directions
Heavy and disconnected
Anchored by words
No universal currency
You matched my resistence
My reckless persistence
Your tides gave me vision
A way I could see
I dreamt you pulled me under
My ears roared with thunder
I reached for the surface
But you wouldn't let go
I descended into darkness
Absorbed by the stillness
There was no time to grieve
You had swallowed me whole
I was still and peaceful
In your darkness, so beautiful
Under the weight of the water
I began to breath
I felt the fear leave me
It could no longer keep me
The weight of life dropped
To the bottom of the sea
Maybe now I'll remember
When I next hear the thunder
That life is the glow
Of a flickering street
We come here to suffer
To find love, and surrender
We come to swim
In the ocean at night
We brave the white water
We come up from under
We move through the darkness
And collect bits of light
When the ocean speaks, I listen
In the mountains, I still dream of it
Its vastness
Its openness
Its pulse on the shore
Rivers here run away
But you always ran toward me
In a world full of red
You were a cold, blue song
You delivered me to shore
Like countless times before
It is you who I come from
And to you, I'll return.
