Ocean

The Ocean swells sway me

Even planted here with bare feet

on landscapes of barnacled rock,

Shapes of shells and striations of sand

I feel my hips instinctively

sweep through the arc of circle

Like a pendulum of time travel

As if I am moving with my baby

With body intentions for calm, intimacy,

unyielding love

The ocean swells sway me

Like a pendulum of time travel

I am being moved with intentions of Ocean

To hold everything,

to swell with everything

The crashing Waves

rock me gently

in their fierceness,

Move me securely

In their relentlessness

Hold me tightly

In their persistence

Ground me closely

In their vastness

In their unyielding life force energy like no other

Vibrating my bones,

Singing through my flesh—

And I become the sensations of smallness

As if I am held by the Great Mother

In a time before this lifetime

In a time after this lifetime

In a time that holds me here now

in my midlife body of impermanence

Yet As if I belong to

All-that-is

All-that-ever-was

All-that-will-ever-be

How can it be that in my smallness—

In my humility, vulnerability, fragility

I am ever more safe, ever more loved,

Ever more connected to the strength, peace,

creativity, grace beyond myself

Than I could ever be alone within myself

in this uncertain world

Ocean swells womb me

And I remember I am here

Always with belonging

to an Ocean of Love

Always with unyielding

Swells of Love to give to this Life

And I remember here I am

Never ever alone

in the dance of the swell & the sway