O, great father ocean I have always known
The scent and the cadence of my own
But the call of waves a-lapping is buried in my ears
And salty things are nesting in my nose
When my hear was pumping seaweed and brine sat in my lungs
I dreamt a life outside you coral womb
But tiresome was the process to crawl out of your seas
And it took a billion turns and countless moons
And the moon overcame us and washed my body out to land
And I woke up half a monkey and pulled myself out of the surf with monkey hands
O, great father ocean I have always known
The soup of sand and grit that fills my bones
The molar and the canine, where it all came from
The belly in the basin of your gut
Touch my wrist and feel the murmur, the salt turn in my pulse
The moon who pulls its flow back and forth
There’s a tidal wave of lumbar crashing around my brain
And down my back it spills into my hands
O, great father ocean I have always known
Where I’m going when my flight is flown
The foam and the green wave, the drowning ageless rock
The ebb and flow that stalls for my return
When I sink beneath the moaning and cockled swollen whales
An anchor never sank or dove so deep
And the heart that once pumped seaweed will close up like a clam
And lungs will leak their last into the sea
And the moon will forgive us and part the surface for my dive
And I’ll slip the skin of a monkey and lay down on your deathly bed with monkey hands
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