"Where Corals Lie......", A Poem By 'Zahc'

Aug 28 2011

08/28/11

" Where Corals Lie : A Rhapsody On A Theme By Sir Edward Elgar "

I lie stretched out against the sand, while up above the sky--a lum'nous band--pales leaden at the close of day. Sleep comes not as a quiet slumbering, but as a measured death; I feel each part of me give up its hold on life and drift away. A gentle mist surrounds, the breath becomes a shadowed fog. I close my eyes and go to where--as Elgar says--the corals lie.

My mem'rys palette fades, the color die, the silent patterns sway. All senses shade in black and deeper grey. I would go there and hide, a quiet thing, my own Self vibrant with the crashing waves is drawn out with the passing tide.

I settle deep as deep the sea. I downward drift to where the kelp beds beckon me with siren's song along the coral'd rift.

Above, the depth of sea spans all around, a measureless eternity. So vast a place, that I expand to fill all space, and lying there, become the sea.

And swift it seems I pass the night. Too soon I feel drawn up to where the surface breaks, a panoply of tossing waves, and sintillating rays of light. Too soon I must forsake my sleep, returning to a world that wants me not; it wrenches me unbidden from the comfort of the deep and restless sea.

Oh, must I rouse myself, and blindly seek that alien shore ? When I would shun its cruel design, and would at last return once more, to seek my rest among the cool, dark valleys of the deep. And there, reclaim myself, my solitude, my peace in silent sleep.

my love to all, 'Zahc/Charles"

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