This Element

Looking for a place

where we might turn off

the inner dialogue,

the monologue

of futures & regrets,

of pasts not past enough

& futures that may never come

to pass,

we found this boat

bobbing in the blue,

this refuge amid reefs,

this white hull

within this azure sibilance of sea,

this central rocking

so like the rocking

before birth.



Venus was born of the waters,

borne over them

to teach us about love-

our only sail

on the seas of our lives

as death is

our only anchor.



If we return again & again

to the sea

both in our dreams

& for our love affairs

it is because

this element alone

understands our pasts

& futures

as she makes them



one.