Song of the sea

You waited until dusk to call on me

I hesitated, fussing around your shore

Like a child hanging to her mother's skirt

All the shyness dripping from my toes

Into your mouth, sinking, sinking.

You waited until my feet were swallowed

Up to my ankles into your moving sands

Like tiny roots expanding down below

All my worries slowly drenching

Into into the moist earthiness of your embrace.

You waited until my eyes were ready

To face the cruel vastness of your gaze
The moment when I realised that facing you
Is facing my self
Into the mirror hidden beneath your surface.

You waited until all my armours dissolved
Despite my fear to be seen as I am
Before you finally whispered
Come, come, my love, my child, my kin,
Come taste my salty waters with your skin.

And then you waited no more
As I surrendered to your song
Beckoning me home
Fear by fear, doubt by doubt,
Inch by inch of sunkissed skin.

I surrendered my weight
To the gentle rocking of your waves
Stroking my body with infinite kindness
And playful adoration
Teaching me to trust the unbearable lightness of being.

I surrendered my pain
To the hollow of your depth
Receiving my teardrops
Like a mother receives her long lost children
Teaching me the alchemy of love.

I surrendered my laughter
To your choir of seagulls
Echoing the wilderness of my voice
And the flutter of my invizibile wings
Teaching me the sheer joy of being alive.

And as I melted into your waters
We became one
There was no more beholder and beheld
No more above and below
Only the beloved.

And the song.

When the time came to be born again
Out of your depth
I rose with a new awareness
Pledging to carry this song in my heart
And just allow it to be sung through my voice.

So here it is
The song of the sea
The song of love
Calling you
Home.