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I See You in the Ocean

September 4, 2014
By SabrinaFaire SILVER, Odenville, Alabama
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SabrinaFaire SILVER, Odenville, Alabama
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"You aren't going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on ME." Alaska Young

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I see you in the ocean.

 

I see your blush in the shallow water fish;

trying so hard to see ashore,

 

but fleeing once seen by more.

I see your laugh in the waves;

a constant spilling and overturning,

never too calm and always flurrying.

 

I see you in the ocean.

 

I see your cries in the sand;

the whole buried at the bottom,

but still turns the taste of the sea.

I see your worries in the tide;

hidden away in the dark,

but those present cannot flee.

 

I see you in the ocean.

 

I see your eyes in the sunrise;

the sun turning the surface a glint.

I see your hope in the sandbar;

on top of the world -- away from even eye’s squint.

 

I see you in the ocean --

and oh,

how I love the sea.

© Harrison L., Ruston, LA

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You are one person with the entire complexity of the sea.

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