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Tidal, a poem

Posted on Jan 9, 2014 in Poetry

Widemouth Bay

I was watching the sea in meditation at Widemouth Bay near Bude, when most of this poem just popped into my head pretty much fully formed. It was almost as if someone else wrote it through me. I then revisited it, years and more experience later, to add the last lines:

The waves race to embrace the shore,
Stretching themselves out,
Pulling themselves thin,
Like reaching ghosts.
As if they know.
As if they know
That the same desire driving them
To individuate upon the sand
Will draw them back inexorably
To the swallowing sea,
The overwhelming ocean.
And so it is with me;
Thirsting for autonomy
While consciousness demands
Surrender to the boundless All.
Liberation lies this way.
The solution is dissolving.
Merging with more.
As my shoreline recedes,
The current breathes me further
Out, to the surprising peace
And higher purpose of
Becoming the union I feared.

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Semele Xerri

© Semele Xerri is a psychic intuitive guide, healer, animal communicator, and Reiki Healer / Master Teacher. To find out more about her and her services, go to her Work with me page.
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