Pearl in the Ocean
I can’t frame you;
I can’t fit you
into my previous boxes,
I can only love
your very idea,
the ever-changing tides.
Does it seem strange
that my stable point
is always shifting?
Does it seem believable
that I find order
in your chaos?
Dear friend, wild ocean,
you expand beyond
the measure of mine,
enclosing my entire
existence into the corner
of your heart.
You will never become
a work of art;
no one could ever recreate
what you already are:
beautiful tumult,
restless magnificence.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 467 |
Words | 86 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
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