With The Sea And Sand Alone

With the Sea and Sand Alone By: Tejas Ranade

2007

With the Sea and sand alone The Ocean chills my soul and bone It splashes forth, it splashes hither, Tormented by tumultuous weather

I stare, unmoving, in its depth And forming a gaping rift. It travels through my spine, and I feel My conscience tilt forward and keel.

The Ocean represents but nil, Humanity traveling an upward hill Our futile search of divine truth And slaking man’s thirst to its root

But what is it except deception? Of our knowledge, only inception. The Sea is an illusion, swift and fair But at its end only despair.

Unlike the stars dotting heaven The waves deliver their hellish sermon. Unlike the sky, mysterious wonder It rips in our imagination asunder.

Beware and do not stare too long Stay away from its luring song, For it is a bottomless abyss; A dark crevice, and the unknown’s kiss.