the Ocean

Your crystal green ripples sharply flicker of gold embellishments as the sun playfully kisses your freckled surface

Your silence engulfs me in a sleepy drunkeness as I drift off, immobile as a plank of dead wood, except for the waves slithering around my bare skin.

Your demanding current moves me closer to the shore, to my consciousness, to the hectic chaos called life, to reality.

I rise into the stinging air, wanting more of your healing numbness.

Back in your deep waters I fall to Sleep.