Arise & Shine Music to Art 2024 Competition 

SOLACE

Alone all at sea
Flimsy as a shipwreck tossed like flotsam.
Floating then drowning in the salty blue
Round the tides rhythm turns me
Dipping and dropping low beneath the waves
Swirling swelling motion of the sea, rise and fall, sway and swing and the seas rhythm rocks me in liquid turquoise.
Horizons appear with the swelling of the tide and the sea is caressing me
Wrapped in the depths of profound love
Watery arms hold on as we pavane together
The wisdom of time and tides, beginnings and endings held in a sea of memory comfort me immersed in love hope arises in me again
And I retrace the revisiting of life
Memories deep in the body wake me up
And I swim hesitantly, tentatively lyrically
For shore leeward where life continues as it always will. I find my heart needs to engage again
To face life's vagaries
And I let the tide pull me in.