Abyss Poem by Patti Masterman

The world is an ocean
Rising and falling
Glowing and fading
From moonlight to day
Ungraspable motion
The currents are stalling
As we go wading
Across the blue bay.

The clouds now are shuttered
Upon the long daylight
The tides they'll be lifting
As midnight comes near
The beaches are cluttered
With signs of the seas might
And black water's breaking
Above the old pier.

No man can weather
Earth's changing faces
No heart can fathom
The depths of the mind
No strength can tether
The night's lonely spaces
Love's the lost anthem
In the abyss of time.